Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

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

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.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.