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.

Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

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

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

Play is just another version of work

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.