Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.

There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.

See technology used to be our friends. But now, nobody is quite so sure.

One of the things we know now that we didn't know then, is that revolutions are very painful to a lot of people. And that at the stage that we have evolved to now, a revolution would be extremely painful.

There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.

People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.

Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.