A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.