Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.

Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy "migration utility" through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.

Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in, and we have to step up to the occasion.

We do not live in an economy, we live in a Ponzi scheme.

The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.

I feel like Hollywood would rather end the emerging, bottom-up creative culture than let it happen.

People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.

When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us.

The reverence of God is grace to act right.

Do what you can to help people but have the wisdom to accept your limits.

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

What gives me strength is thinking about my children.

I think with a lot of producers, they think computers can create the best drum track, or guitar track and it comes off as too artificial.

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

At the heart of all things is love.

Since there are no absolutes, when it's convenient, you change the rules. Do we know any politicians that have done that?

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.