Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.

The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it.

A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AIs will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.

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

The software programs that make our body run ... were evolved in very different times. We'd like to actually change those programs. One little software program, called the fat insulin receptor gene, basically says, 'Hold onto every calorie, because the next hunting season may not work out so well.' That was in the interests of the species tens of thousands of years ago. We'd like to turn that program off.