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

Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

If war stems from unmet needs related to male adolescent ritual, that's something that we need to examine. I'm interested in the possibility of simply getting rid of war. I'd be no more willing to let go of that than to let go of the possibility of eradicating cancer. That's not to say I'm certain we can, but I am willing to use any energy at all in the quest.

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.