Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.

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

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

But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.

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

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.