Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they all share is that creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures, and disciplines.

Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.

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.

Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will start to become possible.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.

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