One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Once I wept for I had no shoes. Then I met a man with no feet, so I took his shoes. I mean, it wasn't as if he was going to need them.

I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.

All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.