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The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

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.

If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.

We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.

Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear.