It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.

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

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

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.

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.