The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas.

[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. And I think we probably do need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile.

I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.

An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself.