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

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.

Does God exist? Well, I would say, 'not yet'.

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.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.