Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free