The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The number one organ of ridicule, nowadays, is the newspaper. If you open the newspaper any day of the week, it's full of people who've messed up their lives. They've slept with the wrong person, taken the wrong substance, passed the wrong piece of legislation -- whatever it is, and then are fit for ridicule. In other words, they have failed. And they are described as "losers." Now, is there any alternative to this? I think the Western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, which is tragedy.
The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
当你停止相信的那一刻，你就已经失败了。