Minds are simply what brains do.

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.

A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers of the twentieth century, and the professional philosophers will almost all be forgotten, because they're just shallow and wrong, and their ideas aren't very powerful.

Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.

We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.

Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets.

But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.