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

We should talk about the ultimate cause of war. It's a question we should never stop asking, because if we do, there's a chance, however remote, that we might miss an opportunity to reduce the occurrence of war.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

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.

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

Humans change themselves through technology.

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.