The Langlands program is a vision of how mathematics could be unified in a single framework.

And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.

The monument is a fixed point in the changing city.

I'm the reason your present won't stay.

"Die Kunst des Schreibens besteht darin, die Welt so zu beschreiben, wie sie ist, und gleichzeitig so, wie sie sein könnte."