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.

You wash the roots very carefully before you plant.

Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.

Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about.

Active people to revitalize what is really the root of democracy: citizens communicating with each other. Democracy is not just about voting, it's about citizens talking with each other about the issues which concern them. We've lost a great deal of that in the age of the mass media.

I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.

If 80,000,000 polygons per second is reality, what happens to you when you live in a world 160,000,000?