"I was approached to do a film script for the Beatles. I said it would have to be an absolutely original script. Paul McCartney said do whatever you like. I said that means you'll never be able to do it."

"It would be totally senseless to try to describe here the pain that was inflicted on me. Was it 'like a red-hot iron in my shoulders,' and was another 'like a dull wooden stake that had been driven in…"

"Imagination is the manipulation of images in one's head... the rational manipulation... as well as the literary and artistic manipulation."

"Although world views grow organic ly and historically, they can also be developed. The construction of world views is comparable to the work of cartographers in antiquity and in the Middle Ages. They …"

"Most of our future attempts to build large, growing Artificial Intelligences will be subject to all sorts of mental disorders."