Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.

Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.

It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.

If 80,000,000 polygons per second is reality, what happens to you when you live in a world 160,000,000?

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

We've got a planet in which we don't want to have everybody having sex, and most people are lonely anyway.