You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

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.

Now of course like, you know fancy go to the opera and see drama and they regard them as high culture. And these, are really people for the most part who get uptighter. The idea that people you know might take their clothes off and dance in the street.

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

It's quintessentially American to transform your family.