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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A society that has destroyed freedom and beauty must itself be destroyed.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely greed must be the father. Children of this odd couple are named: Laziness, Envy, Greed, Jr., Gluttony, Lust, Anger and Pride.

It's Better to Have Something Than Nothing..

Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things

At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.