事实上，我不知道如果没有数学我会做什么。

自信来自于准备充分并精通自己的领域。

I do not know what I may appear to the world， but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore， and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary， whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

释义：君子应当削减多余，用来增补不足，要测出财物的多少，做到公平分配。现常用“裒多益寡”比喻多接受别人的意见，弥补自己的不足。

We are more interested in the capacity of architecture to improve people's lives than in the capacity of architecture to be beautiful.