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.

There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.

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

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

We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people.... As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the same. They always had exaggerated canine teeth and a certain sort of expression. That led to speculation about whether at an earlier stage in the human experience we were hunted by some sort of carnivore.