...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis, the ability to combine creativity and calculation, art and science, into whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.

Chess is mental torture.

Constructs like race will decline in relevance in a roboticized world. That how well one human subset or community - a race, a nationality, a religion - is doing will be secondary to how well humanity in general is doing in face of the robot revolution.

Even well-known historians like Edward Gibbon are talking about how the soldiers of the 18th century were not able to do the same type of exercise [like Romans].

Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.

You know, if I'm in a bad mood, I always look at the chessboard, just to find something that can cheer me up.

I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.