In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.