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I'm an advocate of human nature.
I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook.
Information is alienated experience.
Humans change themselves through technology.
Our times demand rejection of seven word bios.
Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.
You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.
Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.
Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.
To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil.
External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system.
After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.
The network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful.
People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.
I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.
The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.
Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.
Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.
A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.
I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.
A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.
People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.
My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.
If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.
There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.
A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.
Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.
Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.
There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.
I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.
I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.
Why do people deserve a penny when they update their Facebook status? Because they'll spend some of it on you.
Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.
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.
Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet.
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say
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.
Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.
I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.
The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.
Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.
Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.
We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.
Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.