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.

你以为这些永远不会发生在你身上，不可能发生在你身上，你是世界上唯一一个这些事都不会发生的人，然后，一件接一件，它们开始发生在你身上，就像发生在其他所有人身上一样。

我曾经是贫穷的白人垃圾，没有闪光，没有魅力。但我有一个梦想，我实现了它。