"Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?"
对物品过于在意会毁了你。只是——如果你足够在意某样东西，它就会拥有自己的生命，不是吗？而美丽的东西的全部意义——不就是它们将你与某种更大的美联系起来吗？
You have to be humble and accept that sometimes you will lose.
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.
不要委屈自己而迎合他人，不要用不正当的手段去获取名誉。
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
科学不仅仅是关于发现，而是关于将发现应用于人类需求。