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

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.

If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking!

I bet the human brain is a kludge

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.