I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, 'You make your own luck. '
People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
I don't really watch too many movies. I don't have the patience usually to watch one, one and a half or two hours in a row.
If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when lightning happens to fall upon some terrestrial object, or when water is electrolysed, has been engaging my attention the last couple of years, and induced me to make many attempts at clearing up that mysterious phenomenon. Though baffled for a long time, at last, I think, I have succeeded so far as to have got the clue which will lead to the discovery of the true cause of the smell in question.
I got to be constantly reassured that somebody loves me.
You get born and you try this and you don't know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don't know why either except that the strings are all in one another's way.