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.

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.

Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.

All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.

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.

As you go out to the 2040s, now the bulk of our thinking is out in the cloud. The biological portion of our brain didn't go away but the nonbiological portion will be much more powerful. And it will be uploaded automatically the way we back up everything now that's digital.

Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.