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

Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, "Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living." We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have.

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.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

Is war an inevitable outcome of competing interests in a complex society? In other words, would war be the same even if human nature were very different? There are mathematical models of large groups working together that lead to conflict on a reliable basis. So there's a whole other view of war that is not psychological at all.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.