Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

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.

If you never assume the truth, you'll never be shackled by a lie.

Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting.

Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.

Suppose everyone on our side felt that way?

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.

At some point, you realize that people might be laughing at your jokes because they're afraid not to laugh.