Taking a solemn oath and sticking to it casts everything in a different light and infuses the ordinary with significance. It can change a person more radically than any drug or many years of therapy.

Some never escape from the imprisoning conviction that a cold or unattainable lover can be persuaded to become warm or attainable if they only discover the key.

The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.

We focus on a unique form of artificial intelligence called artificial swarm intelligence.

Take my hand when you are worried Take my hand when you're alone Take my hand and let me guide you Take my hand to lead you home.

So much leather inside my car my horn moos.

Death is the great leveller.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

We want to bring enterprise back to blighted urban areas. People there have been told nothing is ever going to change. The policy makers may feel the same way.

Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.