"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success."

The elegance of a mathematical proof is akin to the beauty of a well-crafted algorithm.

一个有趣的事实是，岩石越古老，与今天的岩石差异越大。