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"Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do."
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"I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper."

"We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them."

"Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human."

"Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today."

"You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars."

"There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today."

"Well, Naomi said cheerfully, "what's the worst that can happen? They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook."

"A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own."
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"Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections."

"My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time."

"I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people."

"I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care."

"A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention."

"I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life."
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