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.

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.

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.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Each day the sun kisses the day goodnight yet no two days are alike.

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete.

Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good.

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.

There's something incredibly tragic about Kong. You feel almost feel ashamed to be a human being when you see what happens to him. I mean he is ultimately a pure-heart.

I just wanted to be a scientist

You name it, I've got it. Some players have to be 100 percent (to play), but I don't.