“It’s a savant, smart about a few things but profoundly ignorant about large swaths of human knowledge.”
on his experience with Wolfram Alpha, the “knowledge engine” designed to beat Google at its own game
“If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that’s fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray that makes people say crazy things and write lazy articles, a serious swarm of flies ends up in my ointment.”
about the hype surrounding Ida
“Is President Obama, who has pledged to restore science to its…
