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.

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

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.

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

But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

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