Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.

In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.

Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

Your perception of the world is ... really a fabrication of your model of the world. You don't really see light or sound. You perceive it because your model says this is how the world is, and those patterns invoke the model. It's hard to believe, but it really is true.

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.