"Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer."

"‘In from three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being. I mean …"

"I had the naive idea that if one could build a big enough network, with enough memory loops, it might get lucky and a…"

"Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'disc…"

"Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children."

"When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the proble…"

"An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind."

"If you like somebody's work -- just go and see them. However, don't ask for their autograph. A lot of people came and…"

"If there's something you like very much then you should regard this not as you feeling good but as a kind of brain ca…"

"In today's computer science curricula … almost all their time is devoted to formal classification of syntactic langua…"