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

One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.

Information is alienated experience.

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

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

We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people.... As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.

Chemotherapy is a good thing even though it kills healthy cells. But we still hope for something better. We'd like to prevent cancer in the first place.