The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
The dead don’t rest if the living don’t let them.
Don’t say anything about someone in email you would not be comfortable saying to them directly, because eventually they will read it.
真相很少是纯粹的,也绝不简单。
The true subject of a painting is the painting itself.
When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.