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.

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game.

If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

I'm an advocate of human nature.

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.

It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.