The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will….

At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give away all the information services….

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess..

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like….

The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,” the New York Times tech columnist once wrot….

The beauty of HTML was that one-way linking made it very simple to spread because you could put something up and take no responsibility whatsoever. A….

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff..

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means..

Some of the fantasy objects arising from cybernetic totalism (like the noosphere, which is a supposed global brain formed by the sum of all the human….

Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing it according to….

All over the world today people have a very strong desire to find a sense of identity, and at the same time that's coupled with the rise of absolutel….

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface..

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people..

When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept….

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substan….

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other..

Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, "Don't make your living in this more elevated way….

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves..

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed t….

Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to say so, we can survive….

I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing..