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.

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.

The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.

I had come to a stage in life where I didn't need to earn an income, I didn't need to earn a reputation, I didn't need fame, I didn't need any of the things you might want in your early career.

My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer.