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(As Einstein said, "Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler.")

Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.

We're democratizing the tools of creativity.

If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030.

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

Play is just another version of work

Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

The essential thing is to recognize that consciousness is a biological process like digestion, lactation, photosynthesis, or mitosis;

Does God exist? Well, I would say, not yet

Intelligence is that faculty of mind by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered." - R. W. Young

One cubic inch of nanotube circuitry, once fully developed, would be up to one hundred million times more powerful than the human brain.9

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. - ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.

[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.

The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.

Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.

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

Our sole responsibility is to produce something smarter than we are; any problems beyond that are not ours to solve ...

Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.

We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.

you create your brain from the input you get.

Life expectancy is a statistical phenomenon. You could still be hit by the proverbial bus tomorrow.

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life.

A thousand-bit quantum computer would vastly outperform any conceivable DNA computer, or for that matter any conceivable nonquantum computer.

By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

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

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

The lesson of these new insights is that our brain is entirely like any of our physical muscles: Use it or lose it.

This, then, was the religion that I was raised with: veneration for human creativity and the power of ideas.

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

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

When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.

Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.

All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. - John von Neumann

As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up.

We are a pattern that changes slowly but has stability and continuity, even though the stuff constituting the pattern changes quickly.

All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.

But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it works but what it does when it's stuck. - MARVIN MINSKY

Inflammation in the body) is a very healthy 0.01, and all of my other indexes (for heart disease, diabetes, and other conditions) are at ideal levels.

electron-beam lithography,

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

There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

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

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

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

GEORGE 2048: We like to think of it as one civilization.

What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.

Yes, well, the subjective experience is the opposite of the objective reality

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

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

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