At a minimum if we can just have enough distribution of clout in society so it isn't run by a tiny minority, then at the very least it gives us some room to breathe.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

We should talk about the ultimate cause of war. It's a question we should never stop asking, because if we do, there's a chance, however remote, that we might miss an opportunity to reduce the occurrence of war.

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

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.