We must not forget that the wheel is reinvented so often because it is a very good idea; I've learned to worry more about the soundness of ideas that were invented only once.

Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.

My judgment is that research in 'Star Wars' is going to fail, and I believe this so strongly that I'm willing to stake my professional reputation on this. I don't believe anybody is going to build this thing.

One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year.

Copy and paste is a design error.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.