"My friend Peter Schmidt used to talk about ‘not doing the things that nobody had ever thought of not doing’, which is an inverse process – where you leave out an assumption that everybody has always made and see what happens . In that version of this process, you discover a value in the absence of something ­– in fact you discover that the absence of something is the revelation of something else ."

"Now, I always think that one of the most curious contradictions about the English stock is this: that while the criticism that is often made of us is not without an element of truth, and that is that …"

"Trying to understand the brain's abilities leads to philosophical difliculties. Penrose argues that the task is sterile and that science, including neural networks, has not yet advanced to the stage w…"

"I thank God that this refreshing childhood vision still lives inside me in all its fullness of color and sound. This is what keeps my mind untouched by wastage, keeps it from withering and running dry…"

""Wellbeing is not something to be optimized. Wellbeing is something humans must be able to author themselves.""