“Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that ...” — Roger Penrose Quote

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.

If the computer-guided robots turn out to be our superiors in every respect, then will they not find that they can run the world better without the need of us at all? Humanity itself will then have become obsolete.

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring.

Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.

As history reminds us again and again, wars are not always made on the basis of rational calculations: often the contrary.

I'm not one to make calculations, I'm spontaneous and I prefer it that way.

I'd rather have a pencil and paper and do all my own calculations rather than rely on a machine. And I'll do most calculations in double digit multiples as quick as the machine.