Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers.
It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom.
In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.
Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.
The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.
Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling.
As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.
There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.
I have an irrational fear that something bad is going to happen to me when I'm drinking out of a water fountain. I have no idea why.
My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.
The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future.
I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential.
When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.
My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything.
One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
