One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.