The Langlands program is a testament to the beauty of mathematical abstraction.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

人要一赌上气，就忘记了事情的初衷；只想能气着别人，忘记也耽误了自己。

Small-scale fishermen are not relics of the past—they're pioneers of the future.

I don’t want to be famous. I just want to be great.

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