The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?

Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

Extending our lives, extending our creativity, opening up the mysteries of the brain. All those things that are really exciting - that's kind of the basis of 'Neon Future,' and that's why I interviewed Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey.

Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.