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.

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

Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.

To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, "What caused the Universe to exist?"

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

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

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.