“Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.”

“Today we know more about Jupiter than the guy who lives next door to us. We can predict where an election will go, we can turn a gene on or off, and we can even send a robot to Mars, but we are lost if asked to explain or predict the phenomena we might expect to know the most about, the actions of our fellow humans.”

“Forget dice rolling or boxes of chocolates as metaphors for life. Think of yourself as a dreaming robot on autopilot, and you'll be much closer to the truth.”

“Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”

“We are naught but a collection of the people we have known and the paths we have followed.”

“The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.”

“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”