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.

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.

Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us...

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.

Education helps you to find beauty, but you are responsible to see it.

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Nature always levies her tribute.

Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject