To understand the arithmetic of algebraic varieties is to understand the symmetries hidden within them.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The stock market is unpredictable in the short term, but predictable in the long term.

我是一个诚实的小鬼，如果我们有幸逃过惩罚，我们会很快改过自新，不然你就叫我是个骗子。