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

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.

Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process of regularized formatting had begun. Facebook went further, organizing people into multiple-choice identities while Wikipedia seeks to erase point of view entirely. If a church or government were doing these things, it would feel authoritarian, but when technologists are the culprits, we seem hip, fresh, and inventive. People accept ideas presented in technological form that would be abhorrent in any other forms

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.

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