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

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.

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

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.

A wounded heart that loves even more is immortal, it only survives and blooms time after time. If you happen to live in it, there's no safer place in the world than its beating.

God makes his gospel attractive through his people.

Beware of advice-even this.

The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.

I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.

Everyone has a view of what’s pretty and what’s not pretty, and [plastic surgery] just doesn’t look pretty to me.

Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless as herding cats

I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.