The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.

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

When we go to school, very often, we don't see that passion because the way school is run, the disciplinary nature of it and the rote learning are so, sort of, offensive actually, that children sort of lose that passion more often than not.

Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

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.