Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets.

We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.

I bet the human brain is a kludge

I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?

It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

The brain happens to be a meat machine.

Minds are simply what brains do.

The only man she ever loved. And hated.

It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity

As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.

Going to car racing school was phenomenal.

My mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.

A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.

I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.