Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

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

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.

The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.

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.