We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

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.

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook.

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share

Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing it according to the expectations of foolish utopian scenarios. We want free online experiences so badly that we are happy to not be paid for information that comes from us now or ever. That sensibility also implies that the more dominant information becomes in our economy, the less most of us will be worth.

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.