我承认，我和别人一样有种渴望。渴望干点什么，特别是在无事可干的时候。
巴菲特批评自己在航空业投资的错误时说
朗兰兹纲领是数学思想之美和深度的反映。
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.
历史进程是不连续的，重大变革往往是突然发生的，而不是渐进的。