The Langlands program is a vision of the future of mathematics.

如果你想飞翔，就必须放弃那些拖累你的事物。

Science is a collaborative effort spanning generations.

If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

科学的进步不是一条直线，而是一系列曲折，常常需要回溯步骤以获得更好的立足点。