Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

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.

It is always the exception that sets the rule.

No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave.

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Your Pain May Give Laugh To Somebody But Your Laugh Shouldn't Give Pain To Anybody

The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.

I want to be remembered as a person who kept it real, who did what he wanted to do, but never did nothing stupid and never tried to offend nobody else. I'm always being myself.

We like no noise unless we make it ourselves.

The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken. I have never before had occasion to make the comparison, for never before today have I seen a head in a roasting pan.

By your 40s, you don't want to be with the cool people; you want to be with your people.