教孩子们编程是违背现代教育原则的。制定计划，在组织思想时遵守纪律，专注于细节和学习自我批评有什么乐趣？
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
The Langlands program is not a theory but a web of conjectures and theorems that, if fully established, would unite number theory and representation theory.
Don't tell me how good you make it; tell me how good it makes me when I use it.
任何经济理论的最终检验标准是它是否能改善现实世界的决策。
我不需要理由去善良。
The act of writing is an act of resistance.
A good chemist is a lazy chemist—always looking for the easiest way to do things.
衡量一个文明的标准是它如何对待其艺术家。
The first rule of government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?
写作是一种不被干扰的说话方式。
"The past is always tense, the future perfect."