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.

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.

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.

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.

You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.

Good deeds awakens the good spirit of every soul.

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.

What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?

Arguments are too much like disputes.

Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.

I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models.