Quotes by Garry Kasparov

“All women are inferior to men.”

“Im ashamed by what I did at the end of this match, ... But so be it.”

“Chess is mental torture.”

“I am lucky, ... that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.”

“It is pointless to discuss today who will run and how.”

“I have to play an opponent, a very powerful opponent, that studied all my games, that has a unique ability -- the best on the planet -- to collect all this information and analyze that, and I know nothing about him, ... I said him. I meant it.”

“It was nothing to do about science, ... It was one zeal to beat Garry Kasparov. And when a big corporation with unlimited resources would like to do so, there are many ways to achieve the result.”

“I feel that my chess strengths are still here, ... I believe I can still improve.”

“We have a new, real world champion here today,”

“The scale of the man to whom we are bidding farewell today in no way corresponds to the paltry scale of todays authorities.”

The phrase its better to be lucky than good must be one of the most ridiculous homilies ever uttered. In nearly any competitive endeavor, you have to be damned good before luck can be of any use to you at all.

The human mind isn’t a computer; it cannot progress in an orderly fashion down a list of candidate moves and rank them by a score down to the hundredth of a pawn the way a chess machine does. Even the most disciplined human mind wanders in the heat of competition. This is both a weakness and a strength of human cognition. Sometimes these undisciplined wanderings only weaken your analysis. Other times they lead to inspiration, to beautiful or paradoxical moves that were not on your initial list of candidates.

The point of modern propaganda isnt only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.

A moral foreign policy means your positions on certain matters are clear no matter what, and that you wont forget about them when its convenient.

Somehow, people always forget that its much easier to install a dictator than to remove one

One of the strengths, and weaknesses, of liberal democratic societies is giving the benefit of the doubt even to ones enemies

Dictators seem to learn from history much better than democrats

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, compromises on principles are the street lights

One comforting thing about the Trump White House is that you arent forced to choose between malice and incompetence.

I’m a firm a believer in the power of free enterprise to move the world forward. All that Soviet respect for science was no match for the American innovation machine once unleashed. The problem comes when the government is inhibiting innovation with overregulation and short-sighted policy. Trade wars and restrictive immigration regulations will limit America’s ability to attract the best and brightest minds, minds needed for this and every forthcoming Sputnik moment.