Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.

It became clear to me by 1984 that Microsoft was likely going to be the big winner in the PC software apps and operating system category, partly because of the dynamics of owning and controlling the operating system: that gave you enormous power, and I came to see Bill Gates was fierce competitor.

Architecture is politics.

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.

If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.