I'm proposing … that we reach into our bodies and we grab the genotype, and we reach into the medical system and we grab our records, and we use it to build something together.

Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.

The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.

Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.

I wasn't always who I am now. No one ever is. I've spent my entire lifetime becoming who I am. Finally, I'm here and I'm old. It's depressing, it really is.

Some people I see are so talented that they are just wasting their time on writing at Facebook. Talent must be productive..

I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think.

Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be.

Even while you're in pain, your happiness will be waiting

..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as he encourages them not to look at hip-hop as their salvation.

The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.