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.

I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that.

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

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.

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.

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

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.