Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them.

Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.

Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.

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.

Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

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.