I'd rather be a failed writer than a successful banker.

历史不仅仅是关于发生了什么，而是关于被记住的内容和方式。

"Reading is time travel, and books are the vehicles."

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.