一个好的数学家是能看到定理之间类比的人；一个伟大的数学家是能看到类比之间的类比的人。

真理是存在的无蔽。

Once we dreamt that we were strangers。 We wake up to find that we were dear to each other。

When you have something to say, silence is a lie.

Innovation is the vitality of the infrastructure industry, without innovation there is no future.

In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

"Home is not a place, it's a feeling."