"Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us."

"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."

"It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor."

"We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about."

"The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity."

"The most important thing that entrepreneurs should do is pick something they care about, work on it, but don't actually commit to turning it into a company until it actually works."

"I want to create an environment where I can create technology, get it into the hands of someone to market it, and move on to other technologies so I can keep innovating. I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy."

"Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed."