The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.

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.

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.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

We'll be able to have very intelligent, little robots with computers going inside our bloodstream, keeping us healthy from inside, destroying cancer at the level of one cell.

Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to control or even understand them.