People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share

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

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.

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

Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.

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.