If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

We are our brains. My brain is talking to your brain; our bodies are hanging along for the ride.

Coming in second place just means you were the first person to lose.

Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

You know what, we don't know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don't believe what anyone tells you.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.

It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.

The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.

Sociopath. A label given, and a title received. A definition adorned? Or perhaps a ribbon atop a word.

The worst hatred is that of relatives.

Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I've made through acting, in terms of another actor. He's fantastic.

The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.

It was really an exciting time trying to find my way from being a boy to becoming a man—being toe to toe and eye to eye with grown men, even though I was only 11 or 12.

I started doing the nursery and then prepared 89 hours to teach 2 to 4-year- olds.nd during this time working in this church and going to a little country church, I met Randy [White].

I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.

Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.