I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook.

A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. It's shrinking the overall economy. I think it's the mistake of our age.

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

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace to expect online services (not just news, but 21st century treats like search or social networking) to be given for free, or rather, in exchange for acquiescence to being spied on.

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

I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook.