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.

It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

Why do people deserve a penny when they update their Facebook status? Because they'll spend some of it on you.

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

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.