If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.

We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves when we think we understand something, even a computer, merely because we can model or digitize it.

I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.

Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

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