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

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.

The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

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

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.