This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.

We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this very reason claim not to have a 13th floor, in the sense that there is no button bearing the label '13' in their elevators (I recently stayed in one in New York, in fact).

You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people's brains. It's a less detailed copy, it's coarse-grained.

You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round.

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the truth. A formal system will give you some truths but as we shall soon see a formal system no matter how powerful cannot lead to all truths.

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.

Serendipity. Look for something find something else and realize that what youve found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

I'm not worried. I'm in control.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Really, voice-over is great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it's all I'd ever do.

I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.

I'm not a real person. I'm a legend.

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

Cities are made for enemies to destroy.

When all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food.

And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.

Positive thinking is powerful thinking. If you want happiness, fulfillment, success and inner peace, start thinking you have the power to achieve those things. Focus on the bright side of life and expect positive results.

I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That's what makes characters compelling.

Whatever you do, never stop dreaming.

One moment I can be happy and laughing, but then it comes over me. It's my mom.