No reference is truly direct — every reference depends on some kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.

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

Reductionism is merciless.

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.

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.

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