"The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom."
数学的本质在于它的自由。
"I'm not a theorist. I'm not an intellectual. I write plays."
译文：事业很难成功却很容易失败，时机非常难得却容易失去。赏析：没有人能随随便便成功。成功不光要有坚韧不拔的意志，还要找对方向，付出百倍甚至千倍的努力。成功的时机也很重要，抓住时机能事半功倍。
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.'
希望是长着羽毛的东西，栖息在灵魂里。
The architect must be a guardian of the public realm.
——2004年在南京航空学院上的演讲
