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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.”