There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.

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

Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end.

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

Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.

Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of activities that you don't want. It's like a cigarette tax.

Information wants to be free.