Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

The neural network is this kind of technology that is not an algorithm, it is a network that has weights on it, and you can adjust the weights so that it learns. You teach it through trials.

There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.

Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.

American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.

The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.