It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.

If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

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

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

I would argue that among musicians who work in technology today, the level of technological sophistication probably exceeds that of military programs, to be blunt. They are just really smart people attracted to making strange new sounds.

The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,” the New York Times tech columnist once wrote. “Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease.

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