If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources.

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

In the Sixties, the hippies said "Make love, not war," and that was naive. But it might be less naive to say "Make music, not war," in the sense that the people who create musical instruments are the same people who make up new weapons.

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

Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.

I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.

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.