Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

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.

If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather.

I'm as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I'll take it.

An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself.

If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. I want the cuckoo to come out every millennium for the next 10,000 years. If I hurry I should finish the clock in time to see the cuckoo come out for the first time.