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.
有什么方法可以解决刚才提到的这些焦虑呢？是有的。我想提出几项，先说“功绩主义”，也就是相信每个人的地位忠实呈现他的能力，我认为这种想法太疯狂了，我可以支持所有相信这个想法的，无论是左倾还是右倾的政治家，我同样相信功绩主义，但我认为一个完全彻底以能力取决地位的社会，是个不可能的梦想。
数学是一门活生生的学科，随着新的思想和发现不断演变。
Technology should be a tool for inclusion, not exclusion.
世界建立在数字的力量之上。
有些事情太严肃了，你不得不对它们一笑置之。
我是那种因为基因而让你讨厌的人。这是事实。
世界上有很多好人。如果你找不到一个，那就成为一个。
"语言是唯一的家园。"