"From Grothendieck] and his example, I have also learned not to take glory in the difficulty of a proof: difficulty means we have not understood. The ideal is to be able to paint a landscape in which the proof is obvious."
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Pierre Deligne in: "Notices of the American Mathematical Society", Volume 63, Number 3, pp. 250, March 2016.
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