Life is an adventure - Savor every instant!

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?

We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.

Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conceive to be introductory stuff. That way, you will always aim towards understanding things at a resolution fine enough for you to be creative.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

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.

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.