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.

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.

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.

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

I think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific.

A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.

It don't take me no three days to record no album.

[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.

Ours are the arms with which God hugs and holds her children.

On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing.