You have to figure out what your own aptitudes are. If you play games where other people have the aptitudes and you don’t, you’re going to lose. And that’s as close to certain as any prediction that you can make. You have to figure out where you’ve got an edge. And you’ve got to play within your own circle of competence.
Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.
数学不是关于数字、方程、计算或算法的：它是关于理解的。
阅读就是抵抗；写作就是反叛。
孔子说：“不到苦思冥想时，不去提醒；不到欲说无语时，不去引导。不能举一例能理解三个类似的问题，就不要再教他了。”
第一个用辱骂代替投石的人，是文明的奠基者。