Separation anxiety is assuaged by constant connection. Young people announce every detail of their lives on services like Twitter not to show off, but to avoid the closed door at bedtime, the empty room, the screaming vacuum of an isolated mind.

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.

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

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.