The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature.  

Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.

I have a sense of exile in thought, as if I were an alien.

To be a writer is to be a spy on life.

每个读者都是潜在的作家，每个作家都是反抗的读者。

量子计算不仅仅是经典计算的更快版本；它是一种根本不同的信息处理方式。

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way.