Before we start talking about genetic differences, you gotta come up with a system where there's equal opportunity.

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

Everything we do understand about the universe - the periodic table of elements, Einstein's laws, Newton's laws, all of chemistry, all of biology - that's 4 percent of the universe. We got to the moon on the 4 percent we do understand. We landed on Mars on the 4 percent we do understand. So the day we crack the nut of the rest of that 95 percent... Oh my gosh.

WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay.

Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived. That's what's going on in your digestive tract right now. Are we in charge, or are we simply hosts for bacteria? It all depends on your outlook.

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.

Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.