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

The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.

Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.

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.

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

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.