A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
"I don’t care about money. I make money from my music, and I’m so proud of that."
The greatest discoveries in mathematics are those that unify seemingly unrelated ideas.
"We are all witnesses to the same events, but we see them differently."
我感到难过,不是因为你欺骗了我,而是因为我再也不能相信你了。
"Stories are the way we teach children how to navigate the world."
That is what we have to do in life: to take the great wounds and the little scratches and keep on going.
The conjectures of the Langlands program are not merely problems to be solved but a vision of how mathematics should be.