A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.

I was always interested in curing the brain.

We cannot experimentally map out the brain. Its just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city with 3,000 streets.

Identify the problem but never dwell on it. Focus on solutions.

If you don’t just want to live an ordinary life, then you will have to be intentional about converting all your time into that which you have been called to do.

When we get too comfortable, we stop dreaming.

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

I tell jokes to pay my green fees.

Be brave enough to break your own heart.

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.

The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.