If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

I remember at the age of six regaling my poor little sister with stories about the planets, and how far away they were and which ones might have life.

I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.

You believe that all humanity came from Adam and Eve, and humans have not evolved at all since. So tell me; between the two of them, which was black, which was white, and which was Asian?

If you are asking me if my more global purpose is a battle against religion, it is.

There is a popular cliché ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in..., that computers can only do exactly what you tell them to, and that therefore computers are never creative. This cliché is true only in a crashingly trivial sense, the same sense in which Shakespeare never wrote anything except what his first schoolteacher taught him to write-words.

Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.