优秀与卓越之间的区别在于多走一英里。

我写作是为了理解。我写作是为了不忘却。

To really be a nerd, she’d decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Mathematics is not a deductive science—that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.