By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written directly to our retina, providing full-immersion virtual reality, augmented real reality. We'll be interacting with virtual personalities.

There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.

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.

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

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

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.