Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.

A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers of the twentieth century, and the professional philosophers will almost all be forgotten, because they're just shallow and wrong, and their ideas aren't very powerful.

We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.

Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.

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

Eventually, robots will make everything.

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