I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

Play is just another version of work

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

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

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.

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

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.