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 had come to a stage in life where I didn't need to earn an income, I didn't need to earn a reputation, I didn't need fame, I didn't need any of the things you might want in your early career.

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

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

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

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.

The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.