Epstein Secrets

nd conventions (Yes, that story is in the book!) was starting to poke it's way through the ground. Whenever a customer asked me where Beethoven or Mozart was, I'd always answer, "I'd imagine in their graves." And if they weren't sure where to find Elvis, I'd simply say, "you could probably find him i

prizes sucked, I didn't keep them, I'm not paying any fucking tax on this crap. "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." - Albert Einstein Three or four years later I got a bill from the IRS with a hefty penalty amounting to almost five hundred dollars for my unpaid, undeclared tax. I

se are the thoughts we would most like to study. It might be that computers are not yet powerful enough, and in another few years they will be giving Mozart a run for his money. But there may also be a fundamental difference which renders them incapable of this sort of thinking. This is the crux of the mo

kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015737 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015738

ture, every galaxy could be the output of this single, simple program. My pocket calculator could, theoretically, paint like Picasso and compose like Mozart. All art, knowledge and science would be entirely determined in our Universe and we would have no free will. If you philosophically rebel against thi

e to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.” Alan Turing “The only real valuable thing is intuition.” Albert Einstein “Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ing