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

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.

We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people.... As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.

There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.