The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

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

The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves.

The network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful.

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. Struggle against that.