A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.

How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.

I don't know how anybody can work at home. I know I can't. It's just... there's too much to do at the house, and now, of course, I have a daughter that's at home, and she's always a draw. I can always drop what I'm doing and go play with her, and I do that all day.

There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.

Technology changes, but people stay the same.

It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.

I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.