If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it. - Garry Kasparov

Each victory pulls the victor down slightly and makes it harder to put in maximum effort to improve further.

I regularly say in my lectures on artificial intelligence that humans will always have a monopoly on evil. It's not a threat, just a reminder that people choose. We are not algorithms. We are not bound by code or commandments or laws or treaties. We have them. But we choose. So let us talk now about the choices we make. About things in black and white. About Russia's war on Ukraine. And about good and evil.

"I think we're making theory or even making history because we're opening not even a new chapter but basically a new book on the game of chess. That's why I think all players are excited." —September 2018