If you depend on where the chestnuts are going to be, and where the deer are, you have to be attuned to the outside world.

I think the one thing humans are is language wizards.

We don't have a revolution, and we don't have the time for evolution, where does it come from? It must come from some kind of shared experience that everybody agrees with.

One of the things we know now that we didn't know then, is that revolutions are very painful to a lot of people. And that at the stage that we have evolved to now, a revolution would be extremely painful.

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

The neural network is this kind of technology that is not an algorithm, it is a network that has weights on it, and you can adjust the weights so that it learns. You teach it through trials.

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