The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem.

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught.

My seminar is for highschool students, decent undergraduates, bright graduates, and outstanding professors.

People (or students) do not have shortcomings, only uniquenesses. The goal of a good teacher is to turn these uniquenesses into advantages.

If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.

... The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much more complicated.

You are here on earth to fulfill a specific purpose.May you recognised your calling.

At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.

You're driving with your eyes closed.

Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.

Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they're being duplicitous.

If at first you don't succeed, You're not an Alpha

Well, I see myself in the same business but a lot more successful and doing more movies maybe behind the camera. I plan to do some growing in this industry and take it as far as I can.

To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

There's no need to imagine that you're a wondrous beauty, because that's what you are.