What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level.

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.