Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.

Reductionism is merciless.

I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.

One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.

Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.

We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.

The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.