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.

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

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

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

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

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

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.