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

Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

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

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, and psychology. He's redefining and reforming the role of the philosopher.

Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious.

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