我不能也不愿生活在謹(jǐn)慎的世界里，至少作為作家不行。我向你保證，我寧愿如此——那樣生活會(huì)更容易。但不幸的是，謹(jǐn)慎不適合小說家。
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
這不是關(guān)于成為第一個(gè)女性，而是關(guān)于成為一個(gè)優(yōu)秀的數(shù)學(xué)家。
真相并不總是在事實(shí)中找到，而是在它們之間的空間中。
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.
A mathematician's work is mostly a solitary pursuit, but it builds on the work of many others.
"Friendship isn't about who you've known the longest. It's about who walked into your life and said, 'I'm here for you,' and proved it."
關(guān)鍵在于，政府通過稅收、補(bǔ)貼或監(jiān)管改變激勵(lì)的政策效果，往往與政策支持者聲稱的大不相同。
Art is a way of thinking about what it means to be alive.
Success is a journey, not a destination.