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

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

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

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.

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

Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.