To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it.

I think we should think of AI as the intellectual equivalent of a backhoe. It will be much better than us at a lot of things.

In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end the community will come around.

I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.

Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.

Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people but only if they believe there's a chance of success.

Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it’s another matter.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.

The best way to strengthen a home, current or future, is to keep covenants.

Feminism is small revolutions, every day

To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years.

My parents treat me like I'm 14. They make me clean my room and stuff like that. They're always like "I don't care what MTV says you are.".

If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations."

I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats in order to propagate those beliefs.

Anything that has low certainty or has a lot of impact should be tested early.