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.

Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.

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

Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

Chemotherapy is a good thing even though it kills healthy cells. But we still hope for something better. We'd like to prevent cancer in the first place.

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