Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats.

With each tweet, post, share and comment, we are building and adding to our digital iceberg.

I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.

I listen to every type of metal under the sun. I'm not very discerning.

The eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, it transforms everything.

Dreams come a size too big so we can grow into them.

I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied.

The bond was so strange at times. Jill was jealous on Adrian's behalf.

I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.

Nothing happens until I make it happen.