When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.
I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.
A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
There's no question that males are more violent and more prone to the type of hierarchical organizations that lead to war. War is largely a male activity. In fact, there is some correlation [between making war and] having an excess of males in the population.
Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say
To rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection.
It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know?
Some plays just come out of me, just on instincts. I'll make a play and wonder, How did I do that?
I've always been quiet and kind of shy. I'm sociable, but I would probably migrate to a corner.