Status Updates From Art of Computer Programming...

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.

I like that material from my freshmen math course shows up in the middle of one of the most important works in computer science.