My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now.

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.

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 thought about how all that mattered, in all entirety, and all I wanted, and all I could see anything being worth anything for, was being a writer.

No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That's who I was pretending to be a minute ago - Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. - Ben

Opportunities rarely give second chances.

I have loved and lost in so many different ways. And I have died endless deaths… So when I ask myself, the question today, who am I? My answer is…I do not know.

Saigon is hot, full of atmosphere, activity, and commerce.

Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.

If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn't, we can't

How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.

Grow deep roots to harvest rich fruit! When your roots run deep, you cannot help but bear the fruit of the Spirit.

In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.