To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, "What caused the Universe to exist?"

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.

An intelligent investor sees an opportunity in dip than risk.

Books exceed authors' lifespan.

I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.

Personal testimony of the gospel and the Church is the most important thing you can earn in this life.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

Peppercorn is black and so is the beauty mark of the moon-faces -both rend the heart, yet between them lie enormous spaces

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.