Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant.

I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.

The system of nature of which man is a part tends to be self-balancing self-adjusting self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se but for the Internet which is for me the nervous system of mother Earth which I see as a living creature linking up.

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Microsoft isn't evil they just make really crappy operating systems.

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

When you become a parent or a teacher you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child regulating it.