People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it?

夜晚是一块画布，而我们是颜料。

制度的质量是一个国家成败的关键决定因素。

我正在进步。我不完美，但我每天都在努力。

最大的风险就是不冒任何风险。在一个快速变化的世界里，唯一注定失败的策略就是不冒险。

我对人们如何欺骗自己感兴趣，他们为了让自己能够忍受生活而讲述的故事。

The conjectures of the Langlands program are not merely problems to be solved but a vision of how mathematics should be.

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.