Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to principles we already understand. Some of my colleagues think a million, or perhaps a billion, fragmentary insults will eventually yield wisdom that surpasses that of any well-thought-out essay, so long as sophisticated secret statistical algorithms recombine the fragments. I disagree. A trope from the early days of computer science comes to mind: garbage in, garbage out.

Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

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

The network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful.

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.

Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.