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“Only unsolvable problems are worthy of artificial intelligence.”

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“If you think about it long enough, you'll see that it's obvious.”

“A man spends the first year of his life learning that he ends at his own skin, and the rest of his life learning that he doesn't.”

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“Teaching is a personal matter of the nursery of the mind and should not be on public display.”

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