Yi Xiong

“Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.”
― Seneca

“probability is the very guide of life”
― Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

“There are no more worlds to conquer!”
― Alexander the Great

“Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjoin, merely because the respect of their neighbors depends upon their possession of a good car and their ability to give good dinners. As a matter of fact, any man who can obviously afford a car but genuinely prefers travel or a good library will in the end be much more respected than if he behaved exactly like everyone else.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness