数学不是沿着一条清理干净的高速公路小心翼翼地行进,而是一次进入陌生荒野的旅程,探险者常常会迷路。
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
"I don't believe in writer's block. I believe in laziness."
Every human carries fragments of ancient worlds within them.
Great teams are built on trust, respect, and shared goals.
Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.