Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.

It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.

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

Eventually, robots will make everything.

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.

The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all the other things we know. That's why it's almost always wrong to seek the "real meaning" of anything. A thing with just one meaning has scarcely any meaning at all.

Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.