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

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.

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.

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

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

Only the past is real.

The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view.

You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.

'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.

When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.

To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

Whatever one loves most is beautiful.

It is interesting to see how humans would act if they knew there were never any consequences for their actions because the next day they could wake up and just redo it.