"Our biggest project is actually more in the social sciences, where we are studying mastery - how people get good at things - only we do it from an individuality perspective."

“If you want to do a movie about aliens coming down to Earth nowadays, you need to do it with a smile.”

“People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets”

“I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.”

“The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.”

Source : "Pharsalia". Poem by Lucan, VII. 727,

“This is how....life happens. One small thing at a time. A series of inconsequential junctions, any or none of which can lead to salvation or disaster. There are no grand moments where a person does or does not perform the act that defines their humanity. There are only moments that appear, briefly, to be this way.”

“The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society," or the "nation," which is only a collection of individuals.”

Source : Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

“It has taken me thirty three years and a bang on the head to get my values right.”

“We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing and processing information in the quantum realm. When we build quantum computers, we're hijacking that underlying computation in order to make it do things we want: little and/or/not calculations. We're hacking into the universe.”

Source : "Q&A: Seth Lloyd". Interview with Jason Pontin, www.technologyreview.com. July 1, 2006.