The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.

I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?

Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.

What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.

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.

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world.