The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.

But from another, deeper perspective: we shouldn't involve outselves in lines of development where the ultimate victory condition is emulating dead people. There's no appeal in that. It's bad for us. That kind of inherent mournfulness is just not a good way to be human.

"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.