I don't care about others to scold me, as long as they fear me.

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

The joy of mathematics comes from the moments of clarity when complex things become simple.

创新不是选择，而是生存的必需。