The moment you understand the whole Universe, is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God's mind works

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

Half the battle is just showing up.

I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low.

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.

It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces