当你加入一个新团队时，一切都是从零开始。无论过去取得过什么成就。

一八一四年，俄、奥、普联军兵临巴黎城下，理工学校学生要求参战。面临灭顶之灾的拿破仑却说：“我不愿为取金蛋杀掉我的老母鸡！”后来，这句名言被刻在巴黎理工学校梯型大教室的天花板正中心，一直激励着该校师生奋发好学。

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice their own interests for the good of the team.

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

Nowadays, particularly in the United States, if you meet someone at the bottom of society, they may unkindly be described as a "loser." There's a real difference between an unfortunate and a loser, and that shows 400 years of evolution in society and our belief in who is responsible for our lives. It's no longer the gods, it's us. We're in the driving seat.

The arithmetic of modular forms is a gateway to understanding higher-dimensional objects.

I'm not a pessimist. I'm an optimist trained in realism.