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

The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.

We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.

The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.

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.

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.

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