1. “It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception.”
2. “The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how to be flexible.”
3. “The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.”
4. “In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.”
5. “There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, an when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.”
6. “It turns out that eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order – and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an ever eerier type of order.”
7. “I would like to understand things better but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.”
8. “Irrationality is the square root of all evil.”
9. “In the end, we self-perceiving, self- inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self -reference.”
10. “I am the thought you are now thinking.”
