When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program.

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

If you listen first, and write later, then what you write will have had time to filter through your brain and you'll be in what you say. This is what makes you exist. If you are only a reflector of information, are you really there?

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

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.

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

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