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.

Information is alienated experience.

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.

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

Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

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.