MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.

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.

Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield

Novelist Peter de Vries like Adlai Stevenson and Mark Twain has suffered from the American assumption that anyone with a sense of humour is not to be taken seriously.

Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes

When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three.

A door once opened may be stepped through in either direction.

Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.

To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.