A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cann….

Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do..

I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. I….

Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty.

An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself..

Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The 14th….

Global consciousness is that thing responsible for deciding that pots containing decaffeinated coffee should be orange..

A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're ….

I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine..

Technology is everything that doesn’t work yet..

What we need is a plan B ... independent of the Internet. [It] doesn't necessarily have to have the performance of the Internet, but the police depar….

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself….

[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting h….

If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab ….

If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat it with the same skepticism that you….

We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas..

The computers are in control. We just live in their world..

I'm as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I'll take it..