I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.

Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.

nothing can wear you out like caring about people

To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it.

I think we should think of AI as the intellectual equivalent of a backhoe. It will be much better than us at a lot of things.

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end the community will come around.

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.

There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.

God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering.

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

Casting is storytelling.

There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

America champions the underdog. We champion the underdog until he's not the underdog anymore, and he annoys us.

Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.

When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.