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

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

Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets.

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

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

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

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.