The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.