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.

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

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

I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.

While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself.

By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.