The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It's kind of a Gresham's Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation. Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can't criticize anything.

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

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

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

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.