A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

I spend a lot of time going over old conversation summaries. A lot of the old ones are about ideas that ended in failure, the project didn't work. But hey, you know what? That was five years ago, and now computers are faster, or some new information has come along, the world is different. So we're able to reboot the project.

Suppose there are some things that we don't understand about the universe, but if you understand human intelligence and you understand the gaps in our abilities to think about things, maybe we can engineer in a computer more advanced intelligences that can help augment our ability to think.

It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.

Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.

Maybe we'll understand more about how the universe came to be, and what forces drove it in the early days and which forces drive it now.

The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.