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

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

Redefine the possible.

Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.

There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.