It is not enough to be a good player; you must also play well.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is the most likely to be correct.

Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.

In my view it’s the brain that makes the patterns on the basis of experience, so all the grandmaster does is expose himself to chess information and lets the brain rack it up in its own mysterious way.