An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.

Humans change themselves through technology.

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

Doubt is how you find God

Our regrets want to bring back many things we leave behind

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.

In order to create a little bit of confidence, start cooking with pasta. Pasta is phenomenal. Once you've cooked pasta properly for the first time it becomes second nature.

In many ways, Im younger than I was 20 years ago.

Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.

I would hope that wherever Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, and Fiona get played is where I'd be played. And right now that seems to be the modern Adult Contemporary market.

I'm amazed at how Muslims keep their humanity after reading the Koran.

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.