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

The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,” the New York Times tech columnist once wrote. “Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease.

It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet.

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.