当你收到在未来做某事的邀请时，问问自己：如果这件事安排在明天，你会接受吗？这可以筛选掉大部分事情。
When you get an invitation to do something in the future， ask yourself: would you accept this if it was scheduled for tomorrow？ Not too many promises will pass that immediacy filter.
失意之事，大多是由于洋洋得意所致。
我对孤立的物体不感兴趣。我对物体之间的关系感兴趣。
做数学就是与宇宙对话，寻找我们甚至可能还不知道如何提出的问题的答案。
上帝已死。
We live in time—it holds us and moulds us—but I’ve never felt I understood it very well.