The beauty of a mathematical idea is that it can be shared and understood across cultures and time.

I am what I choose, but I am also what I choose not to be.

Diversity in species and systems isn’t complexity—it’s insurance.

我们终将死去，而这让我们成为幸运的人。

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

我是一个美国黑人，我为我的种族感到骄傲。我为自己是谁感到骄傲。我有许多自豪和尊严。