"The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living."

"I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different. I was aggressive, perhaps too aggressive. Maybe I went too far. I always had to be right in any argument I was in, I alwa…"

"The quest to rationally prove the possibility of sentience in a computer is the modern version of proving God's existence. ...eventually a cybernetically minded twenty-first century version of Kant wi…"

"There is no spirit-driven life force, no throbbing, heaving, pullulating, protoplasmic, mystic jelly. Life is just bytes and bytes and bytes of digital information."

"In the most secret chamber of the spirit of him who believes himself convinced that death puts an end to his personal consciousness, his memory, for ever, and all unknown to him perhaps, there lurks a…"