In the long run, curiosity-driven research just works better... Real breakthroughs come from people focusing on what they're excited about.

A deep-learning system doesn't have any explanatory power.

Take any old classification problem where you have a lot of data, and it's going to be solved by deep learning. There's going to be thousands of applications of deep learning.

The paradigm for intelligence was logical reasoning, and the idea of what an internal representation would look like was it would be some kind of symbolic structure. That has completely changed with these big neural nets.

I've been to so many manufacturing plants. I've yet to walk into one where I did not think AI solutions wouldn't help.

Everybody wants to be a celebrity, which is why we have this phenomenon of social media, where nobody wants to be private. We all want to be seen.

The Internet is amazing.

What we did with 'AllThingsD', though, was very different. We weren't taking a newspaper and putting it on the web; we were creating a digital native product, and we did it inside of a very old, stuffy newspaper company at the time.