Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

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.

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.

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.

No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.

For our path in life...is stony and rugged now, and it rests with us to smooth it. We must fight our way onward. We must be brave. There are obstacles to be met, and we must meet, and crush them!

Flowers carry not only beauty but also the silent song of love. You just have to feel it.

The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.

I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.