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

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and then when you say, 'children,' they will pretty quickly agree with you.

The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.

Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing.

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