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.

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

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

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. And I think we probably do need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile.

Technology is everything that doesn’t work yet.

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.

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.