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.

You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round.

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

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

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

I am the thought you are now thinking.

How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate operation to lower your gullibility, otherwise leaving you alone? If you believe this, you are pretty gullible, and should perhaps consider such an operation.