I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.

A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. It's shrinking the overall economy. I think it's the mistake of our age.

I'm an advocate of human nature.

If you listen first, and write later, then what you write will have had time to filter through your brain and you'll be in what you say. This is what makes you exist. If you are only a reflector of information, are you really there?

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.