It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.

Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.

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

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

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

A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.

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.