I begin by looking for megatrends, changes in the world that will create major new demands. My goal is to create a company that can be there to meet those demands.

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat

When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.

If you're doing something radically new, you need a team that's willing to go on a ride that's very different from anything they've encountered before.

When people lose faith in the idea, you have to let them go, because they start to undermine it for everyone else.

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.

My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now.

I'd rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal.

I moved to MIT from Stanford in 1984 to teach, and became the founding director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.

Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics.

The three boys stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life

My anger was on a rise, when suddenly her eyelids fell. Her lips flexed and again relaxed to shower me with a smile that calmed me down in seconds.

WE MUST ALL FACE THAT FINAL DAY, WHEN ALL THAT WE ARE LEFT WITH IS WHO WE ARE. LEAVE WITH YOUR TRUE SELF

Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.

If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the parts you agree with

The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.

A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

Ultimately chess is just chess - not the best thing in the world and not the worst thing in the world, but there is nothing quite like it.