Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.

You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.

Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.

Demolition is a part of construction.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.