You can't be wise and in love at the same time.
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
The Langlands program is a vision of how mathematics could be unified.
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It's a direction, not a destination.
如果你看到一个巨大的变革性机会，不要疑虑其他人为什么没有采取行动。你可能看到了他人没有看到的东西。问题越严峻，竞争就越有限，对问题解决者的回报就越大。
当目标是带来有意义的改变时，协作胜过竞争。