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

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.

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

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.

I understand (finally) that God does not REACT to prayers or petitions. He has ACTED. It is already done.

America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.

If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.

See and be seen. Get out of your office, walk around, make yourself visible and accessible.

A true hero protects his identiy, not out of fear, but out of humility.

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.

If you want to make a chili, you're going to break some cows.

I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.