One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising.

I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.

Human beings were human beings anatomically for several hundred thousand years, wandering around, hunting and gathering. And then suddenly, at the same time they started painting in caves they started multiplying.

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

There are performances in which the people who have the best muscle skills and musical history may be on the stage, but it's not  -  like a Dead show is not like a usual sit-down performance; the audience does participate.

All you have to do is mate.

The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.