The Langlands program is a framework for understanding the fundamental nature of mathematical truth.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

Leadership is about empowering others to achieve what they didn’t think was possible.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not to give answers.

舞台是我的家。那是我感觉最舒适的地方。