The hierarchy problem is the elephant in the room. ... And it originally showed up in the context of doublet–triplet splitting problem. - Nima Arkani-Hamed

Whether in physics and mathematics or in the humanities, when something really finally works, it has a certain perfection to it, a feeling of inevitability, like it was so completely obvious all along, and it couldn't be any other way.

The stakes are higher than the past. We aren’t asking about this or that particle, but something much more deeply structural about physical reality. … By far the best way to settle this question is to lead a charge to the highest possible energies and build a 100-TeV collider.

... like most physicists, I really enjoy talking about physics.