A list is only as strong as its weakest link.

AI has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires 'thinking' but has failed to do most of what people and animals do 'without thinking'-that, somehow, is much harder.

Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said, "OK, we'll do them both". So the language is too baroque for my taste.

Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.

Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.