Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.

Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.

No, no - I think about thinking

A term meant to convey a person's inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives.

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to a man.

A strong gives forgiveness but weak gives permission.

The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated.

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Labour day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.

People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see just about all that you can handle.

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.