our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

Do not be afraid to skip equations (I do this frequently myself).

Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

100% of a Guru’s marketing plan depends on you holding the belief that you are not enough

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

Dudes," He said, "Do not follow other dudes to the bathroom." Isabelle sighed. "Latent homosexual panic will do you in every time

I try to make sure that, when I'm writing, I don't put too much Cody in it. But I don't want to lose it either.

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.

The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal.

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.

We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.