People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

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 don't want to wake up and find out it was all a dream.

As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more.

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

Harry Truman was courageous enough to command that racial segregation be ended in the military. I was serving in a submarine in the U.S. Navy at the time he issued the order.

Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.

Fortunately, I've never had a job

I'm nice because, when I was growing up, so many people weren't nice to me, and I remember how that felt. And I don't want to make anyone else feel like that. I value nice.

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

I've never had good fortune with sequels. Everyone says this time is going to be better. And then I've done them and they've just been not - they weren't better.