You go to developing countries today and you'll find automobiles that you haven't seen since you're childhood and that's because they really are valuable, they're taken care of, they're repaired, and when something breaks, they just don't buy a new one, they actually fix it.

You can see the future best through peripheral vision.

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.

You go to developing countries today and you'll find automobiles that you haven't seen since you're childhood and that's because they really are valuable, they're taken care of, they're repaired, and when something breaks, they just don't buy a new one, they actually fix it.

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

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.

[Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts.