"[Ray] Kurzweil says that “consciousness is a biological process like digestion, lactation, photosynthesis, or mitosis.” Or, to revise Descartes, “I lactate. Therefore, I think.”"

"[N]on-algorithmic computing in digital silicon is an oxymoron."

"The ultimate success of AI is not due to journal papers, blogs, press releases, forecasts, corporate acquisitions, speculation, or promises. Success is measured by reduction to practice."

"Those who believe in the coming of Strong AI argue that non-algorithmic consciousness will be an emergent property as AI complexity ever increases. In other words, consciousness will just happen, as a sort of natural outgrowth of the code’s increasing complexity. Such unfounded optimism is akin to that of a naive young boy standing in front of a large pile of horse manure. He becomes excited and begins digging into the pile, flinging handfuls of manure over his shoulders. “With all this horse poop,” he says, “there must be a pony in here somewhere!” Strong AI proponents similarly claim, in essence, “With all this computational complexity, there must be some consciousness here somewhere!”"

"Given enough time, any algorithm performed on a modern-day computer can be done by the programmer with pencil and paper."

"Computers can only analyze inside the box. Remarkable humans have the meta-ability to go outside ourselves, look back inside, and explore our abilities. We can understand understanding, think about thinking, and … know about the unknowable"

"Emotions that make us human will never be duplicated by a machine. These include compassion, love, empathy, elation, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, pleasure, pride, excitement, embarrassment, regret, jealousy, grief, hope, and faith. Properly defined, creativity, sentience, and understanding are also on the list. These and other non-algorithmic traits are evidence of non-computable you."

"Any claim that “all religions are true” is like claiming any liquid from a cow, when chilled, goes well with a chocolate chip cookie."

"[S]ome modern [Christian] praise music sung in churches during Sunday worship service is referred to as 7-11 music: seven words repeated eleven times."

"Those who worship at the feet of materialism often don’t admit to the limitations imposed by their narrow core belief."

"The best immortality prospect for the materialist looks to be either deep freezing dead bodies until a cure is found, or computer replication of brains in silicon. One won’t work and the other can’t survive a power outage."

"Individual self-sovereignty is a load-bearing pillar on which liberty rests."

"Bob’s research will vindicate itself. He finds himself at the center of a firestorm that is really not of his own making, and one day — yes, this day is coming, eventually — after the controversy wanes, Bob’s work will still be standing, simply because it is powerful and true."

"Robert Marks... deals in high-level mathematics -the kind of stuff only a handful of people around the planet even understand." "[His math] basically lead[s] you to the conclusion that there is design in the universe." Mark Mathis, Executive Producer of "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed."

"Bob Marks is an unbelievably prolific public intellectual."

"I categorically reject Marks’ whole philosophy and I’d probably call him delusional."

"It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart."

"Your war memories will be with you forever, you'll be asked about them thousands of times after the war is over. People will get their respect for you from that-partly from that, don't get me wrong-but if you can say that you were up front where there was some real shooting going on, then that will mean a whole lot to you in years to come."

"Naturally I don't believe books and I don't believe teachers, but I do believe-it's important for me to believe you [Gene]. Christ, I've got to believe you, at least. I know you better than anybody."

"You had to be rude at least sometimes and edgy often to be credited with 'personality,' and without that accolade no one at Devon could be anyone. No one, with the exception of course of Phineas."

"Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men."

"Now I see what racing skiing is all about. It's all right to miss seeing the trees and the countryside and all the other things when you've got to be in a hurry. And when you're in a war you've got to be in a hurry. Don't you? So I guess maybe racing skiers weren't ruining the sport after all. They were preparing it, if you see what I mean, for the future. Everything has to evolve or else it perishes. . . I'm almost glad this war came along. It's like a test, isn't it, and only the things and the people who've been evolving the right way survive."

"All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy."

"He possessed an extra vigor, a heightened confidence in himself, a serene capacity for affection which saved him. Nothing as he was growing up at home, nothing at Devon, nothing even about the war had broken his harmonious and natural unity. So at last I had."

"He [Finny] had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he."

"Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence."

"I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas."

"What we should do is go down and get their champagne, but we'll drink our beer!"

"[To the media after a game] Well, we couldn't block...but we made up for it by not tackling."

"There are a lot of careers that are gonna end on Monday."

"Can't stop the pass or the run. Otherwise, we're in great shape."

"These guys are almost gutless, and the ones that aren't that are brainless."

"I think it's a good idea."

"We've now proven that we can't play on the road or in front of our home crowd."

"The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition."

"Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought."

"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts."

"I ain't an athlete, lady. I'm a ballplayer."

"Be not disturbed at trifles, nor at accidents, common or unavoidable."

"Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries as much as you think they deserve."

"Wrong no man by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty."

"Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and if you speak, speak accordingly."

"Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off unnecessary actions."

"Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself ; waste nothing."

"Speak but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation."

"Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve."