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

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

The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.

If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. Struggle against that.

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

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

I fear that we are beginning to design ourselves to suit digital models of us, and I worry about a leaching of empathy and humanity in that process.