The Langlands program is not a static set of conjectures but a dynamic field of research.

Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying no to all but the most crucial features.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

States are inherently aggressive and expansionist because they exist in an anarchic international system where there is no higher authority to keep them in check.

Great music survives not because of institutions that preserve it, but because each generation discovers it anew.

Ninety-nine percent of the troubles that threaten our civilization come from too optimistic, therefore we should have a system where the accounting is a way more conservative.

逝者通过他们留下的分子向我们诉说。

世界是一个充满恐怖的地方，但也是美丽的地方。