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

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system.

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.