Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

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

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

Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.

If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.

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

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.