Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

We've got a planet in which we don't want to have everybody having sex, and most people are lonely anyway.

Back in the really early days, the men went out hunting, the women stayed home with the kids, and would hold the kid in one arm against the heart, so that's the left, and with the right arm they would throw. And it turns out you cannot make that calculation in real time. You have to have an algorithm set up. So these brain mechanisms evolved in order to do that, and when they evolved, the thing is that where there is a useful capability it often adapts to places it wasn't evolved for.

The world is restructuring, and all of the enemies that used to exist are kind of gone, so now they are looking out for new enemies.

I certainly think we're losing a lot of our connections with other people. I fear in my most pessimistic moments that the computer is simply another step down the road which we have already taken quite a few steps on. We're talking to each other on computers because we don't talk across the fence.

It's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle.

There are always a few people who are hyper-normal.