“Consciousness is fundamental. It's a fundamental property of the world that we inhabit, a fundamental property of the universe.”

“All information technologies up to the 21st century were organic networks based on our organic brain.”

“An equation, perhaps no more than one inch long, that would allow us to, quote, 'Read the mind of God.'”

"We've sent out one or two little messages, but we certainly aren't investing billions of dollars shouting out into the cosmos saying, "Hey, we are here. Come say hi.""