The Langlands program is not a theory but a web of conjectures and theorems that, if fully established, would unite number theory and representation theory.

I think it's important to be yourself and not try to be someone else.

最可怕的时刻总是在你开始之前。

语言是一种人类自发的创造，语言的发展遵循一定的规律。在人生的某一时期它会达到某种程度。

I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand 'I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!' or 'I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!' 'I am homeless, the Government must house me!' and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first.

自然界的现象，无论是机械的、化学的还是生命的，几乎完全在于通过空间、活力和热之间的持续相互转化。