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

Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

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 You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.

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

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.

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