The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.

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.

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

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.

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.

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