“There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.”

“I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.”

“Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.”

“Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.”

“Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.”

“Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.”

“What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.”

“I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing you're screwed'.”

“Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.”