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.

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

I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.

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

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources.