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“And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.”
Source : "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us" by Bill Joy, www.wired.com. April 1, 2000. 
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“I don't give up, and I make sure to keep my standards high.”
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“Machines are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.”
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“Big deal... the only cats that don't have three legs are the ones with two through zero legs.”
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“All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.”
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“Racial discrimination is illegal. It's illegal in the United States. It's illegal in Arizona. It has been and it will continue to be.”
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“Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates a sense of joy. It's exhilarating to come into contact with the things we write into being. And a real sense of play and abandon – even when we are relying on hard-won technique, and even when the aim is deadly serious. How often do we get the excuse to stop, think, and then stop thinking altogether and try to listen to what sits behind our outside of our thoughts? Poets are lucky.”
Source : "Interview with Tracy K. Smith – 'Poets are Lucky'". Interview with Michael Klein, blog.pshares.org. May 30, 2012.
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“it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.”
