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.

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

Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.

Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be the ones who are best able to extract great value from them. The way to create value in the age of genius machines will be to compile and disseminate knowledge that other people will find useful.

Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.