Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

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

I would argue that among musicians who work in technology today, the level of technological sophistication probably exceeds that of military programs, to be blunt. They are just really smart people attracted to making strange new sounds.

We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people.... As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.

A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. It's shrinking the overall economy. I think it's the mistake of our age.

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.