Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.

The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines were creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

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

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.

Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be the ones who are best able to extract great value from them. The way to create value in the age of genius machines will be to compile and disseminate knowledge that other people will find useful.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.