...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity," one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.

We want to be open-minded enough to accept radial new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that our brains fall out.

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.