我现在生活的全部信念在于,孤独远非一种罕见而奇特的现象,它不仅仅是我和少数其他孤独者的特质,而是人类存在的核心和不可避免的事实。
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed.
被视为行为系统的人类其实相当简单。我们行为表面上的复杂性很大程度上反映了我们所处环境的复杂性。
一本好书是我生命中的一个事件。
I never saw a problem that I did not attempt to solve by mechanical means.
真正的进步不仅仅以利润衡量,而是以积极的影响衡量。
朗兰兹纲领是对数学如何被整体理解的一种愿景。
You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we’ve come up with doing that is through companies.