Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game.

What is extraordinary is that in the United States the current culture desires feelings of machismo and power, but at the same time has absolutely no taste whatsoever for even the slightest loss or bloodshed or ickiness. That's a fascinating combination.

The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.