The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

Collaboration is key in modern research—no single mind can solve the grand challenges alone.

什么使创新思维发生？我认为这真的是一种心态。你必须决定。

The only time I know that something is true is at the moment I discover it in the act of writing.

创新是唯一的出路，淘汰自己，否则竞争将淘汰我们。

The arithmetic of L-functions is a journey into the hidden patterns of the mathematical universe.

经济变革的过程在很大程度上是路径依赖的。

The road to success is always under construction.

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.