Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

  • -- Hal Abelson 埃布尔森

程序必须是为人们阅读而编写的,而且只是顺便为机器执行而编写的。

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'Creative Commons' is the self-congratulatory name of a self-congratulatory movement. Somewhat like kibbutz on the Internet, the idea is to write programs - 'free ware' - and distribute them without charge.

“知识共享”是一个沾沾自喜的运动名称。有点像互联网上的基布兹农场,其理念是编写程序——“免费软件”——并免费分发。

So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements.

所以程序看起来都一样。我看了一场自由滑冰比赛,我以为我在看一个小节目。每个人都在做同样的事情。

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

知道如何阅读是件好事,但知道如何阅读而不是如何解读你所读的内容是很危险的。

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

当你没有必要读的时候,你所读的决定了当你没有办法的时候,你会成为什么样的人。