Jack's [Ma Yun ] theory is that whoever controls data controls the world.

I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.

I'm a man, and I think every man wants to be No. 1.

Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.

But a big paradigm shift is staring us in the face. If I left things to someone else despite having my own thoughts on it, I wouldn't be true to myself.

If something happened, like engineers starting to quit, things would go downhill fast.

We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.

Our aim is to develop affectionate robots that can make people smile.

The imagination is the voyage of our thoughts in the endless ocean of the mind that searches for the splendid beaches of happiness.

When I found out that I made it to the Season 11 finale, I was so shocked that if you went on YouTube and re-watch the Top 3 Results Show, you will see my face looked like a bus hit it.

Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said: Americans are too clean . . . I took no offense.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

O You Who are hidden, body, soul and divinity, Under the fragile form of bread, You are my life from Whom springs an abundance of graces; And, for me, You surpass the delights of Heaven.

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

What do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?

Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of God.

Love, to her ear, was but a name, Combin'd with vanity and shame; Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all Bounded within the cloister wall.