A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

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.

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

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.

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.

I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system.