While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about the decrea….

I think the print media have failed to make the most of their opportunity. They may all disappear because they are approaching things in the wrong wa….

We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox..

The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on..

Software unification. So that I no longer care what computing device I pick up, whether it's a laptop or desktop, whether it's one I own or one in a ….

Similarly for marking exercises, quantitative exercises, maybe not so much in mathematics, but certainly problem sets in physics, chemistry, and engi….

Computers make people stupid..

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?.

In principle the first thing on the stream would be my birth certificate, a little electronic version of that, my parents would put my school records….

I think the universities as we know them will be dead in a future years. I'd like to see them replaced by something better, instead of something wors….

Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally..

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity..

The "paperless office" is a bad idea because paper is one of the most useful and valuable media ever invented. "On paper" is a good place for informa….

There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, whi….

Readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of minutes in my day,….

if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history..

The book is a unit and is such a brilliant ergonomic unit..

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against com….

The future was and remains the quintessential American art form. Other nations sit back and let their futures happen; we construct ours. We can let t….

One: Make Congress and the White House obey the same Obamacare rules you do. Two: Obama let business off for a year; we want workers to be let off fo….

Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerf….