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.

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

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.

I believe there is a kind of happiness to be found in every thing in life, in all that is good and pleasing, as well as in that which is sad or poignant.

To find the books end, cross the ancient wood to the mystic isle.Until then, prepare yourselffor the coming battle. . .AND TRUST NO ONE.

Life is a gift. Live it with gratitude.

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

One person's "paranoia" is another person's "engineering redundancy."

In a healthy system, there is no blame.

Bold clean energy action is needed to stave off a climate hostile to human life.

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

There is nothing destroyed by sanctification but that which would destroy us.