Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.

I bet the human brain is a kludge

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

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

What would a Martian visitor think to see a human being laugh? It must look truly horrible: the sight of furious gestures, flailing limbs, and thorax heaving in frenzied contortions.

By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen.

We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a door.