The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation.

Speaking as just simply an American who cares about the economic health of our country, I see one of the surest ways to bring wealth and prosperity to the country is to innovate in science and technology.

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

My only hope is that every other alien civilization isn't doing exactly what we are doing because then everybody would be listening, nobody would be receiving, and we would collectively conclude that there is no other intelligent life in the universe.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

What are you doing? Why are you concerning yourself with the meaning of meaning?