The brain happens to be a meat machine.

I bet the human brain is a kludge

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

An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.

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

Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.

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.