“I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at ...” — Rodney Brooks Quote

“I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.”

“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.”

“Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play 'Pong,' a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that.”

“We all want our genetic information. Why would you not want genetic information?”

“Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.”

“Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish in your blood lines.”