The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

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.

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.