The importance of theoretical computer science lies in its ability to provide a foundation for practical applications.

It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value.

I think it's merely the randomness of the winning and losing process that I want to stress, because the emphasis nowadays is so much on the justice of everything, and politicians always talk about justice. Now I'm a firm believer in justice, I just think that it's impossible. So we should do everything we can to pursue it, but we should always remember that whoever is facing us, whatever has happened in their lives, there will be a strong element of the haphazard. That's what I'm trying to leave room for; otherwise, it can get quite claustrophobic.

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

过去从未死去，它甚至还未过去。

The best way to prevent financial crises is to have strong capital buffers in good times.

真相并不总是最好的故事。

最终，我们记住的不是敌人的话语，而是朋友的沉默。