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.

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

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

Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

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.

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.