An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself.

A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.

I'm as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I'll take it.

An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself.

Global consciousness is that thing responsible for deciding that pots containing decaffeinated coffee should be orange.

[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. And I think we probably do need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile.