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

If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030.

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

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

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.