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

It is doubling now every two years. Doubling every two years means multiplying by 1,000 in 20 years. At that rate we'll meet 100 percent of our energy needs in 20 years.

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

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.

When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

We're democratizing the tools of creativity.

[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.