Just because something isn’t practical doesn’t mean it’s not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.
There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep trying
You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.
I need to stop running back to you in my mind all the time.
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....
In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.
Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...