Humans change themselves through technology.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves.

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

One thing that I have been trying to do is bring together in places like Bosnia technologists who create ever-more destructive land mines [and convince them not to build more dangerous mines]. And that has actually worked.

If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.