America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves.

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

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

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.

The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.