"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit."
The Langlands program is a reflection of the unity of mathematical thought.
The pain is temporary, but the glory is forever.
The quantum Fourier transform is the key to the exponential speedup in Shor's algorithm.