The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how to be flexible.

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.

Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide

Death paused. YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE, he said, THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE?‘Yes. Yes, of course.’Death nodded. IN TIME, he said, YOU WILL LEARN THAT IT IS WRONG.

No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.

Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?

I don’t want to be that person, who just takes things.

Oz thinks I'm beautiful," she whispered to the stars.

Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.

The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengable right of prerogative over the one thing, and only thing we own, our mind.

The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.

Just remember that everyone is struggling; everyone is living with fear and uncertainty and it doesn't matter what their politics are.