A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

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

Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

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

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

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

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

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

The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.

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

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

But Yossarian knew he was right, because, as he explained to Clevinger, to the best of his knowledge he had never been wrong.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

Don't you wish we all lived in black light.... for one thing, it would mean an end to toothpaste as we know it

All it takes is a single moment.

Enjoy the present hour Be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

Seriously, I will probably out-talk you if you come up to me because I'm a chatterbox.

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.

Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.

Too much information can be as disconcerting as too little.