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

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now or a hundred years from now. By the end of the chronicle you will know that humanity carried the flame of knowledge into the terrible blackness of the unknown, to the very brink of annihilation. And we carried it back.

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.

If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.

A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.

Technology changes, but people stay the same.