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

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

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

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction.

The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started.

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