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

If you think backwards from a big problem, and you talk to all these other people who have skills and who think forward from their skills, it's very easy to form collaborations because everyone is incentivized to work together.

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

If we succeed, it makes no sense to keep it only for ourselves.

Life is an adventure - Savor every instant!

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

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.