"A good book is a magic gateway to a world of imagination."

"To write is to resist—to resist forgetting, to resist silence."

Sometimes the most profound mathematics comes from playing with simple ideas until they reveal their hidden complexity.

永远不要低估渐进式改进的力量。

Here's an insight that I've had about success: You can't be successful at everything. We hear a lot of talk about work-life balance. Nonsense. You can't have it all. You can't. So any vision of success has to admit what it's losing out on, where the element of loss is. And I think any wise life will accept, as I say, that there is going to be an element where we're not succeeding.

我宁愿毁灭世界也不愿划伤自己的手指。