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

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.

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

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

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.

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

There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.