Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.

I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook.

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.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

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

Why do people deserve a penny when they update their Facebook status? Because they'll spend some of it on you.

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.