When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.

On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

The amusements of broadcast consist mainly of songs, stories, and games, just as in tribal life. The songs and stories are mostly about courtship, the games mostly played by men, just as in tribal life.

In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.