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.

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

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.

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

Technology is everything that doesn’t work yet.

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

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.