I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.

The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.

To transcend means to "go beyond," but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of reality (e.g., the spiritual level) to be not of this world. We can "go beyond" the "ordinary" powers of the material world through the power of patterns. Rather than a materialist, I would prefer to consider myself a "patternist." It's through the emergent powers of the pattern that we transcend.

A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AIs will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.

What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

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.