Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.

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.

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.

In the hands of thinking humanity, the purpose of the tool of Divinity or Religion is not the service of bookish doctrines, but the realization of the self.

There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's.

Life is brutal that way... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

New Rule #1 – Don't date women who paint. Arty-farty doesn't just equal freaky in the sack, it also equals nasty genius revenge. I don't like genius when it's happening to me.

It is dangerous to make everybody go forward by the same road: and worse to measure others by oneself.

Right and wrong are very complicated

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting.

I wouldn't go in a fast food outlet even to use the toilet.

I think we should have a very, very heavy tax on handguns and on bullets.