Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.

We are our brains. My brain is talking to your brain; our bodies are hanging along for the ride.

Coming in second place just means you were the first person to lose.

Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

You know what, we don't know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don't believe what anyone tells you.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.

It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.

He was Lenin in a Lamborghini. He was Gandhi with a gun

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he possess, even if he does not realize it, is family life.

I want you to know that you're the hottest biscuit this side of the gravy boat.

Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.

I totally changed my life, changed my lifestyle.

The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar.

Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing back in Los Angeles, but when you look out there... How can you complain when you see a whale cresting, matter-of-factly, as you make your breakfast?