The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
文明的伟大进步，无论是在建筑、绘画、科学、文学、工业还是农业领域，都从未来自中央集权的政府。
沙漠教会人耐心、沉默和小事物的价值。
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
我们必须接受有限的失望，但永远不要失去无限的希望。
The only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
The Langlands program is a vision of how mathematics could be unified.
In the wild, you learn to appreciate the little things. They often make the biggest difference.