数学家的工作是在别人看到混乱的地方发现模式。

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

"The colony is the place where the project of a new humanity is to be tested, where the dream of a world without borders is to be realized, where the dream of a world without races is to be realized, where the dream of a world without nations is to be realized, where the dream of a world without classes is to be realized, where the dream of a world without genders is to be realized, where the dream of a world without religions is to be realized, where the dream of a world without money is to be realized, where the dream of a world without property is to be realized."

所有伟大的爱情都是想象力的行为。

翻译：仰观天上日月星辰，俯察地面山川原野，因此能够知晓幽隐和显明的各种事理。

To be a good writer, you have to be a good reader first.

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.