His anguish, he wrote, had multiple sources, from a fear of fame to a fear of failure. Behind the ordinary fears lurked the fear of being ordinary.
Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
The intelligence we will create from the reverse-engineering of the brain will have access to its own source code and will be able to rapidly improve itself in an accelerating iterative design cycle....
Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.
Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality...
Living life without a goal is like sailing the sea without a compass.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
The real dawah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.
It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.