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 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?

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

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

Work backward from your goal.

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