Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.

It is much more rewarding to do more with less.

My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.

The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.

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.

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.