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

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.

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

Destructive force of hatred is a virus

In Los Angeles, you feel like everything revolves around the movies. In Paris, you still have other things to do.

It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple. ("For The Rest Of Her Life")

On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.

To me, that's where a lot of satire lies. News used to hold itself to a higher plane and slowly it has dissolved into, well, me.

I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.

Battles are not won by strength alone!