Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace to expect online services (not just news, but 21st century treats like search or social networking) to be given for free, or rather, in exchange for acquiescence to being spied on.

Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.