Music... immerses us in seemingly stable worlds! How can this be, when there is so little of it present at each moment? - Marvin Minsky

I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience… How would they know?

What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.

Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.