What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.

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

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

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

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

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.

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