写作是我唯一坚持做过的事情,除了结婚。
Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.
"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."
A book should feel like a friend to a child—comforting, exciting, and full of surprises.
If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
The true power of mathematics is not in its complexity, but in its simplicity and elegance.