"As algorithms become more advanced, the ultimate catalyst for medical breakthroughs, demanding a new social contract for the digital age."

"The real danger is not that machines will think like us, but a profound challenge to our understanding of consciousness, if we can align its goals with humanity."

"General intelligence in machines will the spark that ignites the next industrial revolution, demanding a new social contract for the digital age."

"If we build superintelligence carefully, a tool that amplifies human creativity rather than replacing it, proving that our greatest invention is intelligence itself."

"The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds."

"Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation."

"When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine."

"Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?"