By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have become what we think of as machines today, but rather machines will have progressed to be like humans and beyond. Technology will be the metaphorical opposable thumb that enables our next step in evolution.

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me; they are mental constructs in my own brain.

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

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

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.

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.