The editor's job is to make the director's vision come to life.

The Langlands program is a vision of how mathematics could be seen as a single, coherent whole.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.

心若是牢笼，处处为牢笼，自由不在外面，而在于内心。

没有人富有到可以赎回自己的过去。

A distributed system is one in which I can’t get any work done because some machine I’ve never heard of has crashed.

The work is a kind of excavation.

In mathematics, the simplest questions often lead to the most profound discoveries.