I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.

The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we'll have a number of different special purpose robots.

I believe one day nano-robots will play an important role in medicine.

In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.

When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics problems.

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.

That's exciting because to create new value in the robot space quickly, you need to stand on the shoulders of other technological developments.

Its going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

We learned that very few people care how you accomplish something. Instead, these people care more about whether you create value for your end user.

I think, people are generally willing to imagine robots of all shapes, as humanoid robots are not practical.

the inletour friend looks as he didwhen we first knew him, and until I wake I believeI will die of grief, for I knowthat this boy grew into a manwho was a faithful friendwho died.

Write when you can't stop writing. Read when you stopped writing!

Step and land, step and land. That's all travel was. Throw in some running and a change of scenery. No big deal, right? And so, off he went. Off they went together.

A romantic relationship requires honesty between a couple.

There's a song", I say. "There's always a song", he says.

It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]

The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium.

It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.

I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or come close to the music in a wonderful poem, and then it returns to the sound of prose.

Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.