For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

There is an anti-science by the far right. We have to be careful that the far left doesn't balance this with a naive approach of promising what we can't deliver. I mean, science is neutral; it's not politically conservative or liberal.

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial twist and turn in the rococo political drama has a secure place as the lead story.