No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

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.

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.

Minds are simply what brains do.

Love her but leave her wild.

Louis Pasteur, the great scientist, said "chance favours the prepared mind", which is a posh way of saying 'do your homework', but it's an excellent piece of advice.

It makes it easier to play evil and to act evil to people that you really like. You have a feeling about them, so you know what the opposite is.

...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

You can make startling changes you can’t even conceive of right now, if you just give yourself half a chance.

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.

Haters gonna hate, but here are the only words you need for them. Sashay, away.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.