If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
如果汽车的发展周期与计算机相同,今天的劳斯莱斯将只需100美元,每加仑行驶一百万英里,并且每年爆炸一次,杀死车内所有人。
代数簇的算术证明了抽象思维的力量。
朗兰兹纲领不仅仅是一组猜想,而是一种思考数学的方式。
At that age, I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details, but basically the ad said, every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate, I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days, estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number, I poked my head into the front of the car, tapped my grandmother on the shoulder, and proudly proclaimed, "At two minutes per puff, you've taken nine years off your life!"
I want to fill the universe with art.
抓紧时间,孩子们,让你的生命不同寻常。
"The interplay between mathematics and computer science is a rich source of deep and beautiful results."
弦理论的景观是广阔而复杂的,可能有10^500个不同的可能宇宙。
Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.