Sometimes guessing is the best you can do. In the real world, we guess all the time and it serves us well.

There is no such thing as zero uncertainty.

Humans are very good at making algorithms work eventually.

The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork.

Human beings, from a mathematical perspective, are fairly limited. Two and three dimensions, maybe five, and we're OK.

They did not realize what a supreme effort of courage it required to make this young girl go out alone into the wide world, and face its vastness and its strangeness.

The seemingly most hateful, those on the front lines of despair, are mere instruments of sinister forces, which pull the manipulative strings of manufactured supremacy.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

We have lots of fruit trees and vegetables - we live endlessly on courgettes. I certainly wouldn't approve of a diet of McDonald's for my children.

If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.

The wise men were all fools, what to do?

Being on the road and doing events is like getting kids ready for school for most families.

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.