It's energy intensification, where we essentially have, through our light bulbs and cars, the manpower of [hundreds of] people working on our behalf, helping our food being created, helping our materials like steel and plastic and wood and paper be created. Our lifestyles are incredibly energy intense.

Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.

I'm cooler than you. WAAAY cooler.

Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's daunting, I suppose.