Your perception of the world is ... really a fabrication of your model of the world. You don't really see light or sound. You perceive it because your model says this is how the world is, and those patterns invoke the model. It's hard to believe, but it really is true.

You know what, we don't know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don't believe what anyone tells you.

Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

Adding hardware to any computer is hard. The reality is, you're sticking in disks, trying to run installers. We do a very sophisticated installation and de-install but it's invisible to the user and happens almost instantaneously.

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.

It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.