General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

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.

Love is the poetry of the senses!

Overcome evil with good and hate with love.

One day I shall leave the world, And if you feel like remembering me-Search me not in my ashes, In my words, you can rummage me!

I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

Love, when it is a sacred quest, is a space of resurrection and repair. It does more than help us survive a soulless world; it helps us to transform.

Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.