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And if you take Warren Buffett and watched him with a time clock, I would say half of all the time he spends is sitting on his ass and reading. And a big chunk of the rest of the time is spent talking one on one either on the telephone or personally with highly gifted people whom he trusts and who trust him. In other words, it looks quite academic, all this worldly success.
获得智慧是一种道德责任，它不仅仅是为了让你们的生活变得更加美好。有一个相关的道理非常重要，那就是你们必须坚持终身学习。如果不终身学习，你们将不会取得很高的成就。光靠已有的知识，你们在生活中走不了多远。
Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty. It’s not something you do just to advance in life. And there’s a corollary to that proposition which is very important. It means that you’re hooked for lifetime learning, and without lifetime learning you people are not going to do very well. You are not going to get very far in life based on what you already know.
If you can’t change it, change your mindset.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
If you’re not uncomfortable, you’re not growing.
If your art doesn’t challenge you, it won’t challenge anyone else.
"Every object tells a story if you're willing to listen."
The everyday is always extraordinary if you look closely enough.
I don't believe in guilty pleasures - if you enjoy something, enjoy it.
You have to be comfortable with being uncomfortable if you want to make progress in mathematics.
The Langlands program is not a theory but a web of conjectures and theorems that, if fully established, would unite number theory and representation theory.
The truth is, I don't know what I would have done without mathematics.