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

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources.

Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

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

I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system.

I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook.