Commencement Speech: Life as Symbolism
'Your life is like a bit of mathematical symbolism: an abstraction until you apply it to a real problem.'
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"Your life is like a bit of mathematical symbolism. In isolation, it is just an abstraction, signifying nothing. But the moment you apply it to a real problem, it gains meaning."