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

Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and was worth $28 billion. They even invented the first digital camera. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only thirteen people. Where did all those jobs disappear to? And what happened to the wealth that all those middle-class jobs created?

I'm an advocate of human nature.

I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook.

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.

One thing that I have been trying to do is bring together in places like Bosnia technologists who create ever-more destructive land mines [and convince them not to build more dangerous mines]. And that has actually worked.

Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.