“The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services a...” — Bill Gates Quote

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

I've always been interested in an architecture of resistance - architecture that has some power over the way we live. Working under adversarial conditions could be seen as a plus because you're offering alternatives. Still, there are situations that make you ask the questions: 'Do I want to be a part of this?'

London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.

The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.