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.

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.

Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

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

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.

We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world.

You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush.