When I'm talking to somebody, I'll put a piece of paper on the table and I'll write what I call a conversation summary - notes about the conversation on the piece of paper. At the end of the conversation, I'll take a picture on my phone and give the other person the original piece of paper.

There are many things that we still don't understand about the universe, right? Einstein struggled to bring quantum mechanics and gravity together and never succeeded, and that's a problem that to this day is not well understood. Well, maybe to comprehend some of these things, we need to augment our intelligence. If we do, who knows?

We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.

A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.