The Langlands program is a vision of how mathematics could be understood as a whole.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

这句话其实是莎士比亚借哈姆雷特之口说的，但是霍金非常喜欢，曾在自己著作中多次引用，所以很多人误以为本句话是霍金说的。

A building should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.