Technology didn't just go, clunk. It was this early disease, starting with a plow, I guess, or something like that, the first tool that made it so you could do more things. The first domesticated animal, or the first wheel.

How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to.

The performances in the future would be like an audience wired to somebody who was sort of instigating, and then moment-to-moment creation would be transmuted individually.

One of the things that's attractive about cyberspace is that it can be construed as no threat. If you see it through the video game keyhole, the amusement keyhole, the entertainment keyhole, it is no threat. If you see it through the LSD keyhole, the consciousness-expanding keyhole, it's like electronic drugs: it is a threat.

The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.

If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.