I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.

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.

Solitude awakes the soul to spiritual realms.

Finally I reached into my pocket and flipped a quarter. Heads was Phlox, tails was Arthur. It came up heads. I called Arthur.

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

I've abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact - really, it's better.

Kiss me, and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me. Hold me like you'll never let me go.

In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is that you are never given the intellectual framework for calling your faith into question.

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?