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.

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

Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.

Every big company has some little guy who is an enthusiast off in the corner working on technology. In Japan, it is integrated into their high-level strategy. They see it as a communication medium, because for them, just the words  -  and this is the problem that they have with Americans  -  just the words they say to you is not the complete message. Their facial expressions, their body language, there is a lot of context. Also, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well.

There are always a few people who are hyper-normal.

It's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle.

The areas of the brain that have to do with speech are very connected with the same parallel processors that have to do with the kind of ballistic calculations you need to hit small game with a rock.