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

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'.

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.

Rainmakers create growth through commitment.

Are you going to answer my questions, or do I have to whack you with a stick until delicious candy surprises fall out?

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.

Your feelings are your greatest tools to help you create your life.

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

When I'm in northern Italy, I walk about feeling slightly less of a freak.