The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

国家不过是一个阶级对另一个阶级进行压迫的机器。

朗兰兹纲领是数学思想之美和深度的反映。

The stories we believe about ourselves can either limit our potential or propel us towards greatness.