Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

You were born as the one you are.

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.

I've been a Fellow in a number of companies: Xerox, Apple, Disney, HP. There are certain similarities because all the Fellows programs were derived from IBM's, which itself was derived from the MIT 'Institute Professor' program.

Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about social thinking is 'how to get along and mutually cope.'