Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.

If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call us when you get here - we'll leave the lights on'? Probably not - but this is more or less what is happening with AI.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

Computer viruses are alive.