Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

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

Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets.

Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.

We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.

I bet the human brain is a kludge

I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?

It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

The brain happens to be a meat machine.

She asked me why I am not answering her questions. I looked at her with love and kept silent. Silence is my best answer for her intriguing questions.

Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?

I think when it comes to Botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices.

Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.

Once I was in a restaurant and I dropped my fork on the floor, and they gave me a new fork. So I pushed my girlfriend out of her chair.

Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.

Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.

Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.