There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the cerebral cortex. Unlike the rest of the brain, this relatively recent evolutionary development is rather flat, only about 0.32 cm (0.12 in) thick and includes a mere 6 million neurons. This elaborately folded organ provides us with what little competence we do possess for understanding what we do and who we do it.

Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.

Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.

It is doubling now every two years. Doubling every two years means multiplying by 1,000 in 20 years. At that rate we'll meet 100 percent of our energy needs in 20 years.

People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.

Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.