I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.

In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All so he could possess casual style. A style that, in logistical requirements, was comparable to fielding a nineteenth-century military brigade. But he looked good. Casual.

I think technology is spreading, and I think ones experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.

I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.

In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold them guns.

Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations?