Everything is danger, but we pretend that it's not.

We can design things that learn, so you can grow an intelligence by creating an environment and creating things that just do it a million time faster than we do.

I certainly think we're losing a lot of our connections with other people. I fear in my most pessimistic moments that the computer is simply another step down the road which we have already taken quite a few steps on. We're talking to each other on computers because we don't talk across the fence.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'

Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.