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

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?

Work backward from your goal.

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

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

Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.

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