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.

...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

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

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

Technology changes, but people stay the same.

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.

Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.