My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.

What the Japanese are, are the Americans of the 21st century. Essentially what is objectionable about them is what was objectionable about Americans when we had the ball. However, they are committed in a way that American technology is not.

It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.

Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.

Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.