Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.

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 only thing that will ever make me fall in love is: if I fall in love.

And Desire smiles, and forgets, for Desire is a creature of the moment.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.

'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).

If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.

The imagination is a dream factory of which realities are a by-product.

At Christmas time I sat on Santa's lap. His fly was open ! Boy what a present he gave me !

Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you've got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor.