“All paths lead to Rome; what happens along the way is your life. Please don’t waste it on speculation or regret.”

“If any action is ever to be considered morally superior to any other action, that superiority must reside in the act itself and not in its consequences.”

“What do 200 trillion sparks have to do with one idea?”

“The written word itself is a form of AI…it’s been around for about 10,000 years.”

"Every day, we set out in search of an Undiscovered Continent (e.g., India); every night, we end up on a beach in the Caribbean, sipping umbrella cocktails.”

“…May I present for your entertainment and consideration…The 22nd Century.”

“Centralized mind, even computer-aided, simply cannot keep up with decentralized matter.”

“The Torah mandates just acts; the Prophets demand right intentions, but the Wisdom writers honor just acts performed by righteous people.”

“Jacob was a bit of a rascal. He was a wimpy kid who cheated his brother and perhaps his employer to line his own pockets… (he) is ‘the patriarch for the rest of us.’” 

“Everywhere we look in the biosphere, we seem to find evidence of mental functioning, self-awareness, consciousness, or at least proto-consciousness.”

“This is not the used car dealership I was expecting; this is a junkyard! ...But a junkyard is also a salvage yard…”

“The ‘Butterfly Effect’ rolls back 500 wasted years of ‘results oriented’ pseudo-ethics…”

Oh no, not this again! How many times do I have to listen to it? “A butterfly flaps its wings in Borneo and it rains in Chicago.” So what!