The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

The future belongs to those who dare to challenge the status quo in science and business.

Consciousness is not a thing, but a process.