It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?

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

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

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.

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

Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.