An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.