Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.

Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.

We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a door.