It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

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.

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.

A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.

The world is restructuring, and all of the enemies that used to exist are kind of gone, so now they are looking out for new enemies.

Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.