I am worried that algorithms are getting too prominent in the world. It started out that computer scientists were worried nobody was listening to us. Now I'm worried that too many people are listening.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

In my own upbringing, my family lacked the ability to provide a stable, nurturing environment.

When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.

My childhood was great, my family was great. I wasn't in a mansion, but we made it work.

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.