"There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory."

"We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people. Information is alienated experienc…"

"I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology."

"The quest to rationally prove the possibility of sentience in a computer (or perhaps in the Internet) is the modern v…"

"People are demonstrably insane when it comes to assessing human sentience."

"There has been over a decade of work worldwide in Darwinian approaches to generating software, and... nothing has ari…"

"If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes che…"

"Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics."

"Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow."

"The problem is that in every example we know, a layer that can change fast also can't change very much."