Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.

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 can add a great beauty to something which is already beautiful, then you must be very beautiful like a white swan adding beauty to a misty lake!

The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.

It’s okay to cry, ya know. Hearts don’t break quietly.

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

I have nine Grammy Awards. I wouldn't have that if I couldn't sing.

The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck.

I just feel "One More Try" is better lyrically. "Careless Whisper" was written when I was 17 years old, and I had not really experienced anything that strong in my life, so it was a bit precocious.

I regret nothing, but I am sorry that I am about to leave my friends.