Computers have no idea what goes on outside of them except what humans tell them. - Ellen Ullman

I once had a job where I didn't talk to anyone for two years. Here was the arrangement: I was the first engineer hired by a start-up software company. In exchange for large quantities of stock that might be worth something someday, I was supposed to give up my life.

I've managed to stay in a perpetual state of learning only by maintaining what I think of as a posture of ignorant humility.

Life is pressuring us to live by the robots’ pleasures, I thought. Our appetites have given way to theirs. Robots aren’t becoming us, I feared; we are becoming them.