Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

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

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.

Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing it according to the expectations of foolish utopian scenarios. We want free online experiences so badly that we are happy to not be paid for information that comes from us now or ever. That sensibility also implies that the more dominant information becomes in our economy, the less most of us will be worth.

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.