The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession

Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.

I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.

It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence.