Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions..

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to i….

If war stems from unmet needs related to male adolescent ritual, that's something that we need to examine. I'm interested in the possibility of simpl….

Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a pra….

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics..

There's no question that males are more violent and more prone to the type of hierarchical organizations that lead to war. War is largely a male acti….

I have been around military technology people a lot because of my role in virtual reality I've seen weapons from conception to implementation. And th….

There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the same. They a….

Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and wa….

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, ….

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable..

The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of out….

There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper..

If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspon….

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people..

I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them..

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility..

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the….

Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mash….

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big..

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right..