Eventually, robots will make everything.

What would a Martian visitor think to see a human being laugh? It must look truly horrible: the sight of furious gestures, flailing limbs, and thorax heaving in frenzied contortions.

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!