I fear that we are beginning to design ourselves to suit digital models of us, and I worry about a leaching of empathy and humanity in that process.

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.