The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

For me they normally happen, these career crises, often, actually, on a Sunday evening, just as the sun is starting to set, and the gap between my hopes for myself and the reality of my life starts to diverge so painfully that I normally end up weeping into a pillow.

The Langlands program is a testament to the beauty of mathematical abstraction.

Music is my therapy, my escape, my everything.

"The streets taught me more than any school ever could."

Sometimes, I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss.

农业的成功不仅以产量衡量，还以土壤和社区的健康来衡量。