And of course the things that get the most attention online tend to be similar to those that succeeded under the old model.

Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth.

First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency.

One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.

New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged.

How valiant to deny the importance of money when it is had in abundance.

One connection I see between the work I did on philosophy and my work on technology is that both communities tend to mystify and create an atmosphere of complexity.

What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that things can be another way.

On the one hand, I'm a kind of crazy anarchist-sympathizer with a hippie background, so this sounds pretty good to me. Make something for the love of it! But the reality is so much more complicated.

But deep this truth impress'd my mind: Thro' all His works abroad, The heart benevolent and kindThe most resembles God.

Nature makes the best paths that leads to the best places.

He didn't care if Matt made him cuddly or made him hornier than he'd ever been or even made him a lovesick fool. James was keeping him. Hopefully Matt would want to keep James too.

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.

The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.

All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.

Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God.