We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a door.

An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.

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

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.

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

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.

Eventually, robots will make everything.