Twice a week, a truck comes near my house, and two guys get out and pick up the garbage. This will disappear. There will still be a truck coming, but it will be driven autonomously, and the garbage will be picked up autonomously, and those jobs will be gone.

We cannot blindly pursue the goal of machine intelligence without pondering its consequences.

It is easy to underestimate in advance the impact of globalization and automation - I have done it myself.

Recognition by one's peers is the goal of every scientist.

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

In order to take a nation to war, you have to believe mightily in the threat you are facing and the virtue of your cause.

New roads carve up the countryside, dispelling peace, creating a penumbra of noise, pollution and ugliness. Their effects spread for many miles.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.