Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

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.

We were letting go of October, relinquishing color, readying ourselves for streets lacquered with ice, the town closed like a walnut, locked inside the cold.

Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.

The thought of going abroad makes my heart leap.

All the people that you see on television defending Donald Trump have not been drafted into it.

I'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything.

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.

I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.

Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.