I had come to a stage in life where I didn't need to earn an income, I didn't need to earn a reputation, I didn't need fame, I didn't need any of the things you might want in your early career.

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.

The nights were mainly made for saying things you can't say tomorrow day.

You can't lose someone who was never there in the first place.

To be considerate of othersIs for the way of the wiseThere’s more fighters than loversLeaving us with blackened eyes

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us.

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. It's all about love!

The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.

Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.