效率（的重要性）被过度强调了，而放空（的重要性）则被严重低估了。定期的周日安息、职业年假、度假出游、工作日中的茶歇、漫无目的的散步和离开工作的时间，对一切领域获得顶级成就都极其重要。最好的工作，需要有良好的休息作为保障。

The greatest threat to democracy is the erosion of trust in institutions.

I see the world through dots, and that’s how I make sense of it.

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.

The Langlands program is a reflection of the depth and beauty of mathematical thought.

If a problem cannot be solved， enlarge it.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.