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

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

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

I have been around military technology people a lot because of my role in virtual reality I've seen weapons from conception to implementation. And there is an extraordinary gadget lust that drives the military. So it's possible that war is just the ultimate expression of creativity.

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.

The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves.