What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become complicated.

The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.

Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.

The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.

Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.

Past glories are poor feeding.

Life is like a book written with lots of surprises, Spell it wrongly and you'll be spilled otherwise.

It was crazy. One minute my arms were around him in a very platonic friendly hug, the next, I was on fire, and no matter how he much touched me, it was not enough.

By giving children lots of affection you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.

I take issue with many people's description of people being illegal Immigrants. There aren't any illegal Human Beings as far as I'm concerned.

If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects.

First you buy me a mocha. Then you let me help you hide a body. Now you take me to a biker clubhouse. Best. Day. Ever.

Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own.