Jeff Hawkins quotes:

In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.

You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there.

We are our brains. My brain is talking to your brain; our bodies are hanging along for the ride.

A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.

Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

Coming in second place just means you were the first person to lose....

Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.

And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.

Your perception of the world is ... really a fabrication of your model of the world. You don't really see light or sound. You perceive it because your model says this is how the world is, and those patterns invoke the model. It's hard to believe, but it really is true.

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.

Adding hardware to any computer is hard. The reality is, you're sticking in disks, trying to run installers. We do a very sophisticated installation and de-install but it's invisible to the user and happens almost instantaneously.

I believe consciousness is simply what it feels like to have a neocortex.

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

You and I are streaming data engines.

It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.

You know what, we don't know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don't believe what anyone tells you.