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

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

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

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.

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