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.

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

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

If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.

This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.

In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.

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.