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.

Despite all the drawbacks, the Internet provides a wide array of information - and some of it is being watched pretty carefully by the pros.

China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.

A feeling I got from working at Google was that technology could solve any problem. Yes, it's fantastic, but what I realized later was there's technology, and there's people. Google had its list ordered: Technology. People. And I think the right order is: People. Technology.

RSS, as a format and an idea, grew directly out of an internet culture that many people online today know nothing about: Usenet.