The network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful.

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action.

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

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.