If I became just a brain in a jar - as long as I can communicate back and forth with people, that would be okay with me.

Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got the thing whole. Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge, and you cannot say precisely how.

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.

You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected.

I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.

Having great components is not enough, and yet we've been obsessed in medicine with components. We want the best drugs, the best technologies, the best specialists, but we don't think too much about how it all comes together.

Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change.