. . . all meaning comes from analogies.

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.

I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

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

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

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