I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.

The beauty of HTML was that one-way linking made it very simple to spread because you could put something up and take no responsibility whatsoever. And that creates a society in which people display no responsibility whatsoever. That's the problem.

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.

The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.