Chemotherapy is a good thing even though it kills healthy cells. But we still hope for something better. We'd like to prevent cancer in the first place.

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

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

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.

All too often, the rabbit hole is as deep as you have dug it.

Some things are worth the wait. A little suspense heightens the pleasure.

Cult movies are basically movies Hollywood missed the first time - that they should have gotten - and then the fans got it and made it successful.

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

Pledge allegiance to the struggle.

He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror when I was twelve or thirteen years old.

Get a good dog. We have not picked up food in the kitchen in 15 years.

[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.

Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.