Basically what you want in any profession - I would say the same thing if I were a lawyer or a doctor - is you want bright undergraduates to look at your profession as something they would be interested in getting into.

Cognitive science is a rapidly developing area, so it could be that there are some surprises around the corner. That does seem to be kind of where the trend line is leading.

It's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm... if I have somebody in my head, that's probably who it is.

One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of what you said.

You want diversity in any intellectual organization. I mean, that's how good ideas arise.

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.