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

Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.

But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?

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.