In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end the community will come around.

To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it.

I think we should think of AI as the intellectual equivalent of a backhoe. It will be much better than us at a lot of things.

I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.

Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.

Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

The way is not clear, and it is when you do not have clarity, when this is allowed, that you will finally have clarity.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

The joy with which we denigrate each others' efforts, I hate that.

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

If beer got any lighter you could raise goldfish in it.

There is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it successful.

Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.

I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and it's my favorite way of figuring an outfit.

Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death.

You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.