A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the biggest computer can a….

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something th….

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it..

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall..

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good..

I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it..

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress..

Why do people deserve a penny when they update their Facebook status? Because they'll spend some of it on you..

Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow..

I fear that we are beginning to design ourselves to suit digital models of us, and I worry about a leaching of empathy and humanity in that process..

In fact, one reason I am interested in developing things in virtual reality is that they're so fascinating. I can come up with problems that are hard….

Information doesn’t deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless a person experiences ….

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory..

Once you can understand something in a way that you can shove it into a computer, you have cracked its code, transcended any particularity it might h….

Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day..

One thing that I have been trying to do is bring together in places like Bosnia technologists who create ever-more destructive land mines [and convin….

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it..

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do..

The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that ….

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable..

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself..