Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

Surely, if we take on thinking partners - or, at the least, thinking servants - in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with them, and will relate to them more easily, if they are shaped like humans. It will be easier to be friends with human-shaped robots than with specialized machines of unrecognizable shape. And I sometimes think that, in the desperate straits of humanity today, we would be grateful to have nonhuman friends, even if they are only the friends we build ourselves.

Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.