I fear that we are beginning to design ourselves to suit digital models of us, and I worry about a leaching of empathy and humanity in that process.

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

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.

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