Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing.

A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.

Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate - the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable value. The US has a jump-start on the practice, in that 65 percent of local school funds come from real estate taxes - a practice Europeans consider odd and ill advised. But wait until that's all there is left to tax, when the rest of the things we buy and sell come from everywhere, anywhere, and nowhere.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.

This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.