A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.

Memories fade but words hang around forever.

It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.

If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.

There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

Demolition is a part of construction.

It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.

Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.

Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

The simple truth is that you can understand the way you are. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you're just a part of it.

To me there's a difference between success and satisfaction. A lot of people have success and no satisfaction. I'm after satisfaction. I

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

By 40, all women are amazing.

My fiancee and I recently eloped. We went on a fabulous honeymoon to Europe, and I was able to see and do everything I wanted without worrying about taking it easy.

I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.

The giant wave of the science has no mercy; when this colossal wave comes, it will sweep away anything untrue!

Shane? Thank God, somebody sane. Well, sane-ish.

We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad; what could I do.