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

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.

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

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 acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands.

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

Think of someone you care about and send loving thoughts in the present moment.

Geometria est archetypus pulchritudinis mundi-Mathematics is the archetype of the beauty of the world-Kepler

...your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will...

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

I have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need.

Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.

If I finish tomorrow and look back on the past years, I' d say, 'that wasn't bad'.