If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends..

If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used..

Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions..

I would argue that among musicians who work in technology today, the level of technological sophistication probably exceeds that of military programs….

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say.

It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruct….

To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil..

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish..

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence..

Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first.I say that info….

Information is alienated experience..

Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a proce….

If you listen first, and write later, then what you write will have had time to filter through your brain and you'll be in what you say. This is what….

A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to principl….

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-cla….

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth..

Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value..

External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system..

We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves when we think we un….

The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates..

As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become comm….