Leibniz gives a wicked elevator pitch for some new technology he’s working on…

If only God would again inspire your Highness, the idea which had the goodness to determine that I be granted 1200 ecus would become the idea of a perpetual revenue, and then I would be as happy as Raymond Lull, and perhaps with more reason. . . . For my invention uses reason in its entirety and is, in addition, a judge of controversies, an interpreter of notions, a balance of probabilities, a compass which will guide us over the ocean of experiences, an inventory of things, a table of thoughts, a microscope for scrutinizing present things, a telescope for predicting distant things, a general calculus, an innocent magic, a non-chimerical cabal, a script which all will read in their own language; and even a language which one will be able to learn in a few weeks, and which will soon be accepted amidst the world. And which will lead the way for the true religion everywhere it goes.

- Leibniz, Letter to Duke of Hanover, 1679