The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the others. Under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself.

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

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.

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.

Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.