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.

Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.

You know back when there were light shows, there was this thing for people to sync into together. And the more people got synced into it, the more sync started happening. I guess it's just the size of the venue, and traveling around and so forth that it doesn't happen anymore. I don't know why.

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.

It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.

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

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.