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.

Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

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

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!

Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive.

Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.