"Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm."

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

The act of creation is an act of faith.

I don’t like to be ordinary. I like to be iconic.

领导力不是掌控，而是照顾那些你负责的人。

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