这就是为什么我们如此在乎事业和成就，以及看重金钱和物质的原因。我们时常被告知我们处在一个物质挂帅的时代，我们都是贪婪的人。我并不认为我们特别看重物质，而是活在一个物质能带来大量情感反馈的时代。
And that's a lot of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods. You know, we're often told that we live in very materialistic times, that we're all greedy people. I don't think we are particularly materialistic. I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods. It's not the material goods we want;
每个人都有值得讲述的故事，每个故事都有值得学习的教训。
The universe is conspiring behind your back to make you a success. This will be much easier to do if you embrace this pronoia.
The Langlands program is a framework for understanding the deeper structures of mathematics.
我一生中最遗憾的是善良的失败。