"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric."

"He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times."

"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."

"Every true genius is bound to be naive."

"I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek."

"People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers."

"This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences."

"Technology is teaching us to be human again."