作家的任务是命名那些无法命名的事物。
The writer's task is to name the unnameable.
Failure is not terrible; what's terrible is not daring to try.
我试图创作足够开放的作品,让人们能够赋予它自己的意义。
形式化方法不是银弹,但它们是追求可靠系统的重要工具。
Theorems are eternal; their proofs are ephemeral.
成功很好,但那不是我创作音乐的原因。
True success comes from adding value to others, not just to yourself.
Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.