Quotes from Edward Boyden

The world is your playground - play with a sense of destiny.

Life is an adventure - Savor every instant!

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.

Work backward from your goal.

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.