I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace to expect online services (not just news, but 21st century treats like search or social networking) to be given for free, or rather, in exchange for acquiescence to being spied on.

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.