Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron .... The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been finely adjusted to make possible the development of life.

In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.

It [AI] would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded.

Disability can be no handicap.

I may contradict myself, but at least I don't contradict myself.