Leonardo da Vinci was lucky to be born the same year that Johannes Gutenberg opened his printing shop. As a young person, he could get information about whatever struck his curiosity. The Internet is to our age what Gutenberg's press was to his, so he would have loved being alive today.

Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

We're all swimming in this digital revolution that we live in.

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

If you want to be a great American, you have got to understand Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, how the American Revolution happened. I think if you want to be a good citizen of the digital age, it helps to feel comfortable with both the people and the ways of thinking that created the digital revolution.

Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.