Irobot Quotes

#1. In 2008, I decided I wanted to begin a new venture, so I started Rethink Robotics. We build factory robots that a person can learn to train in just a few minutes. In May 2011, I stepped off the iRobot board.

Rodney Brooks

#2. Starting out, iRobot was not an economic rocket ship. It took six and a half years before we had enough money in the bank at the beginning of each month to make payroll. We always made it - we paid salaries at the end of the month, and I always had four weeks to figure things out.

Colin Angle

#3. The name iRobot comes from 'Internet-connected robot.'

Colin Angle

#4. One of the great things about the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which my company iRobot designed, is that it's too cheap not to be autonomous.

Rodney Brooks

#5. I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my senior year of high school, I instead decided to attend M.I.T. I like to say I've had only two jobs in my life: whitewater canoeing instructor and wilderness guide in college, and C.E.O. of iRobot.

Colin Angle

#6. There are two sensations of skin you will always remember in your lifetime; the first time you fall in love-and that person holds your hand-and the first time your child grasps your finger. In each of those times, you are sealed to the other for eternity.

Alyson Richman

#7. TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#8. Both trials are marred with injustice, both are flawed.

Ramsey Clark

#9. I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.

David Gemmell

#10. Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.

Henry Paulson

#11. I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that.

Edward Hirsch