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

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

The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.

Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.

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.

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.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.