The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.

The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.

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

If our brain is understanding some parts of the universe and not understanding other parts, and those understandings are about the laws of physics that our brains are built on top of, then it's kind of a loop, right?

The brain is really hard to see. The whole thing is very large - the human brain is several pounds in weight - but the connections between brain cells, known as synapses, are really tiny. They're nanoscale in dimension. So if you want to see how the cells of the brain are connected in networks, you have to see those connections, those synapses.

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

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.