When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it was in the jungle, a million, two millions years ago. But in the last 200 years, our destructive capacities have increased many, many millions of times over. Why don't we see intelligent signals from outer space? Because in all likelihood, once the civilization reaches the point our civilization has reached, it destroys itself.

Plagiarism saves time.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.