“As long as you're not hurting anybody else, as long as you're being kind to people and you're doing what you love, only good things can come of it.”

“As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.”

“Consciousness, when it's unburdened by the body, is something that's ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and that's the meta-nature of our consciousness; we know that we know that we know, and that's such a delicious feeling, but when it's unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical.”

“Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.”

“For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.”

“I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.”

“I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and so we don't realize how fast the future is coming.”

“I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.”

“I think people who have all kinds of debilitating mobility issues will benefit from robotic augmentation. That is, even before we get into organ replacement and organ printing and synthetic biology and so on and so forth.”

“I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.”

“Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.”

“If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.”

“If you use it intelligently, Twitter can be a form of engineered serendipity.”

“I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for amazing things.”

“I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.”

“Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.”

“Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens - the film breaks through the screen and does something to you.”

“Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.”

“Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.”

“The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.”

“There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them.”

“There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.”

“We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.”

“We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small; we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the micro-sphere.”

“We're the first technology-creating species. We use technology to extend our reach. We didn't stay in the caves, and we haven't stayed on the planet. To play jazz with our genomes and the universe might ultimately be what we're all about.”

“You can't win the hearts and minds of the masses unless you inspire them - you must lift their spirits and enliven their hearts.”