Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.

The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.

Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to control or even understand them.

Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.