So why do I talk about the benefits of failure？ Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was， and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
那么为什么我要谈论失败的好处呢？因为失败意味着剥离掉那些不必要的东西。我因此不再伪装自己、远离自我，而重新开始把所有精力放在对我最重要的事情上。
做数学就是参与发现与猜想、直觉与灵感的过程。
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
当人们面对问题时，他们常常试图通过将其分解成更小的部分来解决它。但有时，解决方案在于将问题视为一个整体。