Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

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

We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves when we think we understand something, even a computer, merely because we can model or digitize it.

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

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

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.