No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

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 was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.

Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.

Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes.

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