The way to learn about the mind is to reverse-engineer it: to figure out what natural selection designed it to accomplish.
我们没有什么可失去的,这是一种非常自由的感觉。
The greatest danger is not that we will lose our way, but that we will become content with where we are.
"I think people believe in heaven because they don’t like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don’t like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish."
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.