[Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts.

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.

To enjoy the beauty and abundance of life, revitalize your life.

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence

The biggest thing that comes out of improv that gets built on is just character traits. You know, for me the singing was born out of improv.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three hours. It really depends on how fast the ideas are coming.

One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing.

Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?

There are those who make music and movies in a linear way: They plan them, they have a script. Of course, you have to have a script sometimes, but that alone isn't enough.

It's a time to stop, honor and reflect on the abundance, prosperity, people and lives we are blessed with.