A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.

Global consciousness is that thing responsible for deciding that pots containing decaffeinated coffee should be orange.

Technology is everything that doesn’t work yet.

Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas.

What we need is a plan B ... independent of the Internet. [It] doesn't necessarily have to have the performance of the Internet, but the police department has to be able to call up the fire department.

I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.