What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.

When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and then when you say, 'children,' they will pretty quickly agree with you.

Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.

It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.

You go to developing countries today and you'll find automobiles that you haven't seen since you're childhood and that's because they really are valuable, they're taken care of, they're repaired, and when something breaks, they just don't buy a new one, they actually fix it.

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.