The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves.

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

Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.

If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.