Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'

This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.