The Langlands program is a reflection of the interconnectedness of all mathematical disciplines.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

I see everything. That is my curse.

译文：贤者懂得适度地掌握自己的行为，知道什么时候应该停下来，什么时候应该前进，大丈夫既能屈服于困境，也能展现出坚韧不拔的勇气。赏析：我们做任何事都要分寸得当，知道何事可为，何事不可为，即使身处困境或失意时，我们都要不屈不挠在，自强不息。

"Reading is an act of freedom."