"The credibility of your results depends on the plausibility of your identifying assumptions."

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way.

"世界是一个舞台，但演员选得很糟糕。"

I'm not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, to improve, to evolve.