The ending of a mystery novel is often unexpected, yet it makes perfect sense.
The beauty of mathematics is that it allows us to abstract away from the physical world and focus on the underlying principles.
改变的秘诀在于集中你所有的精力,不是对抗旧的,而是建设新的。
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.