I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

The mainstream is always under attack.

I like to read general biology - things about the immune system and advances in that area - because it lays the foundation for my part of the dialogue at the foundation about what things we ought to pursue.

Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical factors that came together: the creation of HTML by Tim Berners-Lee, the drop in the price of communications, and all the PCs out there that you could put this software into.