I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West.

All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.