One theme that fascinates me is cognitive enhancement. It seems only a matter of time until we live in a world where steroids for the brain are readily available to all. And once we come to grips with that reality, I suspect the debate over the ethics will be much more heated than the debate over steroids in baseball or any other sport, where the use is limited to a select group of freakish athletes.

I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.