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.

最终，自然界将决定弦理论是否是对宇宙的正确描述。

过去总是与我们同在，因为它滋养着现在。

不要怜悯死者，哈利。怜悯生者，尤其是那些没有爱的人。