"Most of us can easily do two things at once; what’s all but impossible is to do one thing at once."

"I am an optimist about consciousness: I think that we will eventually have a theory of it, and in this book I look for one. But consciousness is not just business as usual; if we are to make progress,…"

"It is the same thing: killing, dying, it is the same thing: one is just as alone in each. He is lucky, he will only die once. As for me, for ten days I have been killing him at every minute."

"Boards of Directors have to make certain kinds of decisions, and those decisions are pretty narrowly constrained. They have to be committed to increasing profit share and market share. That means they…"

"“I’ve got an impossible job on my hands,” he told them, “and if I succeed at it, there’s an inconceivable one to follow."