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

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.

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.

It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.

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

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 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.