We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

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.

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

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

The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.

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

All over the world today people have a very strong desire to find a sense of identity, and at the same time that's coupled with the rise of absolutely absurd wars that relate to ethnic identity. Perhaps there is something deeply ingrained in people that relates to a sense of belonging, and without that, identity doesn't seem as real as it should.