The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

文学是一种抵抗的形式，是一种在这个试图让我们沉默的世界中说“我在这里”的方式。

互联网不仅仅是一种技术，它是一种社会现象。

膨胀是使宇宙变得平坦、均匀和各向同性的机制。

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

每一块石头都有一个故事，而我们的职责是发掘它的潜力。

The most exciting moments in mathematics are when you see connections between things that seemed unrelated before.