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.

One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.

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

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.

Information is alienated experience.

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