There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

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.

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

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.