The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
科学与技术的进步并不意味着大多数人生活中智识复杂度的增加。通常恰好相反。
Innovation is the eternal theme of enterprise development; without innovation, there is no future.
The greatest wisdom is to know that you know nothing.
The difference between good and great is the attention to detail.
You have to be comfortable with being uncomfortable if you want to make progress in mathematics.
我天生不是一个政治人物。我不认为作家应该是政治人物。但在南非,你无法将政治排除在你的生活之外。
The interplay between analysis and algebra is the driving force behind many breakthroughs in number theory.