My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

Do not be afraid to skip equations (I do this frequently myself).

I think is sad, how easily we throw around the word without actually understanding the sacrifice behind its meaning. Love in its definition isn't about a strong feeling towards someone, but action.

Life's too short, drive it like ya stole it!

Mental toughness is an element in the make up of perseverance.

Krush Groove was a movie at the time. That was my first break. I just got to New York. I was right out of college and I was happy to have a job.

Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.

I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.

You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to hit some sort of bottom, but I'm here to tell you: There is no bottom.

We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that

You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of Time and Space

I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old.