For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

I'm myself, not a label.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.