Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.

This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.