I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

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.

A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. It's shrinking the overall economy. I think it's the mistake of our age.

There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the same. They always had exaggerated canine teeth and a certain sort of expression. That led to speculation about whether at an earlier stage in the human experience we were hunted by some sort of carnivore.

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.