We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people.... As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.

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

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

Why do people deserve a penny when they update their Facebook status? Because they'll spend some of it on you.