As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

Everybody remembers numbers and computers remember numbers. People remember procedures and computers certainly remember procedures. But the other thing that's still important is that your perception as a human is affected subtly by all this stuff that you can't quite articulate. You run your life according to all this stuff that's happened to you. All of your memories affect everything you do whereas with a computer, there's adaptive software and things, but it's more literal.

If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don't believe you. I mean, they're lying.

By the way, most of the light that comes from the sun is green.

Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks.

Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found.

I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.