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.

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.

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.

After a long period of reflection, he decided that he was in fact right yet again.

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

Help thyself, then thou wilt also have the help of the Almighty.

The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?

Nothing lasts but the Church.

The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer - prayer for those whose lives have been turned upside down. And I'm one of them.

When I watch shows, what I gravitate to is serial. You need to come back, you need to know what's happening.

I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.

I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.