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

We can influence the future but not see it.

Redefine the possible.

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

When the government tries to run innovation, sometimes it does it well and sometimes it doesn't. So setting up a situation where the market runs innovation, which is a cap-and-trade idea, may well have more flexibility.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

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