Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.

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 function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars.

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

I laugh a lot and laugh loudly!

If you can't get an intro to a VC, hang up your cleats now. You're done, GAME OVER

I like things that sound like maybe they shouldn't belong.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.