"Arguing with reality is like trying to teach a cat to bark—hopeless."

"he quality of a world model eventually does not amount to how "truly" it depicts "reality", but how adequately it encodes the patterns."

"One can be a true believer in anything: psychic ability, Christianity or, as Bertrand Russell classically suggested , in the fact there is a teapot orbiting the earth. I could believe any of those thi…"

"Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home."

"Create a vision for the life you really want and then work relentlessly towards making it a reality."