Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Dance like nobody's watching, love like you've never been hurt.

The other thing about modern society and why it causes this anxiety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human. We are the first society to be living in a world where we don't worship anything other than ourselves. We think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we've put people on the Moon, done all sorts of extraordinary things. And so we tend to worship ourselves.

Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we’ve come up with doing that is through companies.

A poet is a painter of the invisible, a sculptor of the intangible.

如果你想理解大脑，你不应该只看单个神经元。你应该观察成千上万个神经元之间的相互作用。

过去是一个外国；他们在那里做事的方式不同。