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?

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.

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.

All good books are about everything, abbreviated.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.

You never know your partner as well as you think.

Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life. Do that!

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.

Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now. I don't even get to the point where there's a problem.

All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.