The most important part of ourselves is the mind and it has been rather inaccessible.

To me, thought-controlled computing is as simple and powerful as a paintbrush - one more tool to unlock and enliven the hidden worlds within us.

Humanizing technology is about taking what's already natural about the human-tech experience and building technology seamlessly in tandem with it.

Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. … Would you make more time for those people?

Our feelings about how we're feeling are notoriously unreliable.

You have to, in some ways, trust in the human spirit and in human ingenuity.

I was always exploring relationships between art and science.

I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't.

Protecting your treasure means to give your life for it.

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?

The artist secretes nostalgia around life.

All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.

We could easily have evolved eyelids thick enough to keep out the light, but we still need to see the shadows fall across them. We're not yet safe.

Despair makes us serve evil as much as good.

When God's leading and directing, you don't have to kick the doors open.

The girls in high school who watched 90210? I was watching Seinfeld.

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.