Kubrick's Vision Seemed To Be

How Hard Is It To Build An Intelligent Machine? I Don't Think It's So Hard, But That's My Opinion, And I've Written Two Books On How I Think One Should Do It. The Basic Idea I Promote Is That You Mustn't Look For A Magic Bullet. You Mustn't Look For One Wonderful Way To Solve All Problems. Instead You Want To Look For 20 Or 30 Ways To Solve Different Kinds Of Problems. And To Build Some Kind Of Higher Administrative Device That Figures Out What Kind Of Problem You Have And What Method To Use.

Experience Has Shown That Science Frequently Develops Most Fruitfully Once We Learn To Examine The Things That Seem The Simplest, Instead Of Those That Seem The Most Mysterious.

Kubrick's Vision Seemed To Be That Humans Are Doomed, Whereas Clarke's Is That Humans Are Moving On To A Better Stage Of Evolution.

General Fiction Is Pretty Much About Ways That People Get Into Problems And Screw Their Lives Up. Science Fiction Is About Everything Else.

Everything Is Similar If You're Willing To Look Far Out Of Focus.