Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

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.

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

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

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