"I achieved more than I could dream of in chess and in chess composing."

"The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron - and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the tr…"

"f you have a Maxwell demon or something like a Szilard engine in, could you use it, as Maxwell envisaged, to use information to extract energy from De Sitter space and... do... useful work? ... only i…"

"The sixth pre-Christian century—the miraculous century of Buddha, Confucius and Lâo-Tse, of the Ionian philosophers and Pythagoras—was a turning point for the human species. A March breeze seemed to b…"

"The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment."