Rodney Brooks

The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems.

Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag of skin full of biomolecules that are interacting according to some laws.

If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einstein, or its user is going to feel cheated.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.