“We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.

Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.

The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.

Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.

That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.

Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.

The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.

Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.

I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.

There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.

I’d rather spend money on things that improve the customer experience than on marketing.

At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing…changing. You were not put on this earth to remain stagnant.

As my Russian improves, I become increasingly conscious of just what sort of a society I live in.