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

This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.

But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.

Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.

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

We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.

Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.