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

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.

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

Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.

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.

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.

I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.