Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.

[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth

It was a year when there were some challenges to deal with and we were particularly pleased with productivity in Europe and growth in emerging markets.