[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.

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.

Anarchy and Liberty are synonymous. Anything less is merely gradient levels of slavery.

Think and unfold the beauty of your mind.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

I never even visualized for a second doing what I'm doing.

None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness.