Eventually, robots will make everything.

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking!

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

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.