I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're - you're the best and you'll win every time.

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.

You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes; that's what intuition is.

I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his style.

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

When you have fun then you're more interested in learning.

I'm more interested in the games than the people.

Let us revolt against the nightmare, and work together for a kinder world.

You know it feels good. I can hardly geta…I don’t even…”There was something amusing about watching him trying to form a coherent sen-tence. Amusing, but arousing at the sametime.

Common sense is only irritating in other people

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.

The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.

You control the doorway to your mind.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.