在所有时代，困扰人类并给他们带来最大灾难的大问题，不是世界上是否有权力，也不是权力从何而来，而是谁应该拥有它。

The number one organ of ridicule, nowadays, is the newspaper. If you open the newspaper any day of the week, it's full of people who've messed up their lives. They've slept with the wrong person, taken the wrong substance, passed the wrong piece of legislation -- whatever it is, and then are fit for ridicule. In other words, they have failed. And they are described as "losers." Now, is there any alternative to this? I think the Western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, which is tragedy.

The Langlands program is a vision of how mathematics could be understood as a whole.

懒惰奢侈，招来贫困；勤劳节俭，累积财富。