We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

We will continue to live in a form in which we become cyborg. Either we download our information to a machine or we incorporate so many machine parts that we don't know where we end and the machine begins.

Hold on to your passion - you'll need it!

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

We are not as strong as technology's pull.

If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.