When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.

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

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.

Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired of you.

May the Lord deliver us from every danger.

If you are faced with a lost opportunity, think of the shifting reality and be ready to catch it when it comes your way. This is the way reality functions.

Getting your first review is like getting your teeth whitened. You hope it doesn’t hurt as much as they say on the internet and you also hope it will leave you with a blinding smile.

It's like they've forgotten everything important, isn't it? I mean, forgotten things like cats and dancing exist.

Baseball has a funny way to tap you on the shoulder when you least expect it and tells you it's the end.

When you're a connoiseur you look for interesting rather than good.

You never really realize how many people care about you until they all turn out to support you.

[...] things most people do naturally are often inexplicably difficult for me.