The greatest happiness of the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.
A good mathematician is not one who knows all the answers, but one who asks the right questions.
Life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.
Everybody, all politicians on Left and Right, agree that meritocracy is a great thing, and we should all be trying to make our societies really, really meritocratic. In other words -- what is a meritocratic society? A meritocratic society is one in which, if you've got talent and energy and skill, you will get to the top, nothing should hold you back. It's a beautiful idea.