Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.

An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.

You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

Eventually, robots will make everything.