I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.
Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.
Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.
The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.
[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?
Romeo wouldn’t change his mind. That’s why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers.
A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.