We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last!

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

Whenever I hear the word "share" I would reach for a gun if I had one. "Share" is frequently followed by the word "feelings", and I have enough of my own thank you; please do us both a favor and repress yours.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

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