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.

Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.

Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce's knowledge and skills and the quantity and quality of the capital, technology, and infrastructure that they have to work with.

For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.

Another good rule for social media, I find, is to never type and post. Instead, be sure to type, pause, think, and then post.