If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.

People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.

Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people's ideas, or memorizing a body of information, however much those may sometimes be useful. Developing your own ideas. In short, thinking for yourself.

People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.