If you listen first, and write later, then what you write will have had time to filter through your brain and you'll be in what you say. This is what makes you exist. If you are only a reflector of information, are you really there?

Chemotherapy is a good thing even though it kills healthy cells. But we still hope for something better. We'd like to prevent cancer in the first place.

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

If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. Struggle against that.

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

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

Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.