"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."

"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."

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

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