Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end.

There is no reason and no way that a human mind can keep up with an artificial intelligence machine by 2035.

The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that?

I don't think that an artificially intelligent system that has superhuman intelligence will be violent. I do think that it will disrupt our culture.

Immortality may be impossible, but imagine what humanity could learn if we all lived 700 years. We could travel deep into utopia and beyond.

To understand the future of technology, we need to begin with one fundamental truth: Technology is natural.

Technology will mirror the culture and the psychology creating it. We need new psychological scaffolding to work with. Less fear and more optimism.

Negative and pessimistic views of technology have always existed. I can just imagine some pessimistic Sumerian in 3500 B.C. screaming about the evils of the wheel.

So they finally gave you the license to kill, about time.

I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless.

I have become an orchidwashed in on the salt white beach.Memory, what can I make of it nowthat might please you-this life, already wastedand still strewn with miracles?

The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.

I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star; are they a troll? Are they someone who hates my politics and so has decided to do that?

A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Emilie. A beautiful name for a beautiful girl.

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.

Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities.