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

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.

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

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.

To the stars who listen - and the dreams that are answered.

I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian.

Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!

Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.

If you think you are too old to rock 'n roll, then you are.