Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

这就好像口渴了才挖井，人死了才找医生。 

I'm not a prophet, I'm not a saint, I'm just a voice.

永远不要停止问：“我们怎样才能做得更好？”

The beauty of mathematics is that it allows us to abstract away the complexities of the real world and focus on the underlying principles.

我不会因为别人希望我成为别的样子而改变自己。

一个人若不付出一些无知的代价，就永远不会幸福。

这是最幸运的年代，也是最倒霉的年代，这是智慧的年代，也是愚昧的年代；这个时期信仰与怀疑共存，这个时期光明与黑暗共存；这是希望之春，也是失望之冬；人们面前琳琅满目，但又一无所有；我们正直达天堂，我们正直通地狱。