Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.

The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV. When that happens, the culture of politics has to change, moving away from controlled one-way messages towards a political culture that is more questioning.

In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.