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.

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

Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.

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

Minds are simply what brains do.

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

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?"