在科学问题上，一千人的权威抵不上一个人的谦逊推理。

成功来自于努力工作、坚持不懈和一点运气的结合。

The process of doing mathematics is more important than the result.

What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift， kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy -- they're given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you're not careful， and if you do， it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

生命是一段旅程，享受过程。

当你收到在未来做某事的邀请时，问问自己：如果这件事安排在明天，你会接受吗？这可以筛选掉大部分事情。

最好的传记是那些让读者感觉亲自遇见了传主的作品。