You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.

Artificial Intelligence is whatever hasn't been done yet.

Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer (programmer or engineer).

When I wasn't sure what the word "charisma" meant, I met Steve Jobs, and then I knew.

Our lives were a series of extremes. A thanksgiving of riches was bestowed on us at birth: grace and joy and a fair share of beauty

I am disgrac'd impeach'd and baffled here - Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear.

We cannot see what we don't believe.

Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one’s groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.

I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?