What if you take a human mind, and upload it into one of these machines?

There are known knowns and known unknowns, but what we should be worried about most is the unknown unknowns.

Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.

It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.

Life can be so unexpected and wolderful!

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

When a comic becomes enamored with his own views and foists them off on the public in a polemic way, he loses not only his sense of humor but his value as a humorist.

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy...like personages.

She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

A President must call on many persons--some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.