We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. It's shrinking the overall economy. I think it's the mistake of our age.

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

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

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.

Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.