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

The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

When I was a student at MIT, we all shared one computer and it took up a whole building. The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful. What now fits in your pocket 25 years from now will fit into a blood cell and will again be millions of times more cost effective.

Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.