We provide a secure, stable space for children to grow up in, so children will be able to take risks and have adventures and do things that are unexpected. If there isn't a risk that your children can fail, then you haven't succeeded as a parent.

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: how should this society work? How should relationships among people work? The exploration is: who am I, what am I doing?