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

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, "What caused the Universe to exist?"

We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.

It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.

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

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.