General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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