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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.