A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.

Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.

Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.

I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.

I believe in no final solutions.

The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time. The remaining 10% of the job requires another 90% of the time. The first condition of immortality is death.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.