It's surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is.

I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of time really trying to systematically tackle problems from different angles.

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

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.

I spend a lot of time going over old conversation summaries. A lot of the old ones are about ideas that ended in failure, the project didn't work. But hey, you know what? That was five years ago, and now computers are faster, or some new information has come along, the world is different. So we're able to reboot the project.