Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will start to become possible.

It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.

But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.

Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.

If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.

Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.

Be confident. Don't seek permission to be yourself.

The past is a pebble in my shoe.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

I've got an age that I do think of myself.

It's not how many years you've lived, it's how they've left you.

In the end, life lived to its fullest is its own Ultimate Gift.

To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.