A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

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

Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

Once you can understand something in a way that you can shove it into a computer, you have cracked its code, transcended any particularity it might have at a given time. It was as if we had become the gods of vision and had effectively created all possible images, for they would merely be reshufflings of the bits in the computers we had before us, completely under our command.

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

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.