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Play is just another version of work
We're democratizing the tools of creativity.
Does God exist? Well, I would say, 'not yet'.
I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.
I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.
Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up.
The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.
Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.
The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.
The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.
What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.
The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.
By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.
Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.
By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.
Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.
There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.
The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.
Life expectancy is a statistical phenomenon. You could still be hit by the proverbial bus tomorrow.
Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.
All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.
We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.
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.
A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life.
The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.
People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.
Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.
The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.
We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.
Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it.
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.
When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.
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.
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.
My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.
Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.
By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.
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.
Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.
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.
I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.
[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.
People say we're running out of energy. That's only true if we stick with these old 19th century technologies. We are awash in energy from the sunlight.
The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious.... Does it have feelings?