Representation theory provides the language in which many number-theoretic phenomena can be expressed.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

当我们本应更明智地保护自己免受其害时，纯真总是默默地呼唤保护：纯真就像一个失去了铃铛的哑巴麻风病人，漫游世界，无意伤害。

Don’t wait until they tell you you are ready. The world might say you are not allowed to yet. I waited a long time in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please, Don’t even bother asking, don't bothering telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.