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

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 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.

Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The 14th-century builder had planted the trees in anticipation of the time, hundreds of years in the future, when the beams would need replacing. Did the carpenters plant new trees to replace the beams again a few hundred years from now?

Technology is everything that doesn’t work yet.

Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.

[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.