Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

The mind is an evolved computer program.

Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.

The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.

You are a child of mine, Born of my own design, And you bear the hard of life.No matter where you go, Oh, you will always know, That you've been made free in Christ, And you are a child of mine!

Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo.

Learn from your mistakes but expect your enemies to learn from theirs.

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

Time is the least thing we have.

One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.

The gods have their own laws. [Lat., Sunt superis sua jura.]