People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.

To write is to confront the chaos of existence and impose some order upon it.

The process of doing mathematics is more important than the result.

预测未来的最好方法是创造未来。

In this business, if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.