I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

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

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share

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.

Humans change themselves through technology.