The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress.

The Langlands program is a vision of the future of mathematics.

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.