One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

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

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.

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.

It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

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