Abstraction is the key to mathematics.
You have to figure out what your own aptitudes are. If you play games where other people have the aptitudes and you don’t, you’re going to lose. And that’s as close to certain as any prediction that you can make. You have to figure out where you’ve got an edge. And you’ve got to play within your own circle of competence.
Literature is the most powerful antidote to dogma.
艺术应该安慰不安的人,扰乱安逸的人。
The process of political decay is as natural as political development.