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

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

One thing that I have been trying to do is bring together in places like Bosnia technologists who create ever-more destructive land mines [and convince them not to build more dangerous mines]. And that has actually worked.

The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves.

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

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