To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.

A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.

Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.

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.

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

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