There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

Humans change themselves through technology.

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

As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace to expect online services (not just news, but 21st century treats like search or social networking) to be given for free, or rather, in exchange for acquiescence to being spied on.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

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

Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, "Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living." We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have.