"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

I don’t care if you’re a hero or a villain, I’m still gonna be me.

The past is not lost; it is encoded within us.

The conjectures of the Langlands program are a challenge to the next generation of mathematicians.

A lot of people think if you just had more process and more compliance- checks and double-checks and so forth-you could create a better world.We just try to operate in a seamless web of deserved trust and be careful of whom we trust.