A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

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

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

I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system.

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.