"Istanbul’s fate is my fate: I am attached to this city because it has made me who I am."

知识最大的敌人不是无知，而是知识的幻觉。

我能计算天体运行的轨迹，但无法计算人类的疯狂。

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose.

宇宙是一顿免费的午餐。

The greatest leaders are not necessarily the ones who do the greatest things. They are the ones that get the people to do the greatest things.

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.