The Langlands program is not just a collection of conjectures but a way of thinking about mathematics.

"We are all prisoners of our own experiences, and yet we can never fully understand them."

心灵是进化和学习的产物。

"Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over."

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

在一切事务中，偶尔将一个问号挂在你长期以来视为理所当然的事物上是一种健康的做法。

I’ve learned that you don’t get to control what happens to you, but you do get to control how you respond.

我不是一个有耐心的人。我希望事情现在就完成。

The goal of cognitive science is to explain how the mind works in terms of information processing.

Art should be free, not bound by rules.