"If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money."

"We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online."

"Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system."

"The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see."

"Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it."

"The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications."

"When we look at machine learning today, we see a tool that amplifies human creativity rather than replacing it, but the timeline remains deeply uncertain."

"If we build superintelligence carefully, a tool that amplifies human creativity rather than replacing it, making it the most important technology of our century."