The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception.

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.

There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.

You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described.

In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.

. . . all meaning comes from analogies.

Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

I hardly ever remember my dreams.

I'm for the death penalty, I'm pro-abortion, I'm pro-assisted suicide, I'm pro-regular suicide. Anything that'll get the traffic moving.

When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.

Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

Our schools are filled with this potential energy, and we need to create an environment for that energy to manifest itself.

Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return