The only way to get better is to compete against the best.

As the sun rose he saw other boats in toward shore, which was only a low green line on the sea.

I'm mentioning all this -- I'm mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem; you may think I'm wrong in this, but I think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises, by moments when what we thought we knew -- about our lives, about our careers -- comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.

The future of quantum computing will depend on our ability to control and manipulate quantum systems with high precision.

Mathematics is a dialogue between the past and the present.