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

At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give away all the information services, but we make money from advertising, we can make information free and still have capitalism. But the problem with that is it reneges on the social contract where people still participate in the formal economy. And it's a kind of capitalism that's totally self-defeating because it's so narrow. It's a winner-take-all capitalism that's not sustaining.

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

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

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

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

When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program.