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

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.

The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.

It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.

In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.