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.

I'm not against paying at all. What I'm against is the complexity of paying. And you very often go to a website and you try to click on something and sometimes it will even say it's free, but you have to fill out this form.

By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.

I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

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.

Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.

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