I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.

Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.

There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover.

Dropping of the atomic bomb was the main subject of conversation for many years and so people had very strong feelings about it on both sides and people who thought it was the greatest thing they'd ever done and people who thought it was just an unpleasant job and people who thought they should have never done it at all, so there were opinions of all kinds.

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.