How valiant to deny the importance of money when it is had in abundance.

Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth.

First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency.

One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.

New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged.

And of course the things that get the most attention online tend to be similar to those that succeeded under the old model.

One connection I see between the work I did on philosophy and my work on technology is that both communities tend to mystify and create an atmosphere of complexity.

What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that things can be another way.

On the one hand, I'm a kind of crazy anarchist-sympathizer with a hippie background, so this sounds pretty good to me. Make something for the love of it! But the reality is so much more complicated.

Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

I have been in control of what Ive been doing, of the career Ive put together.

I'm such a wuss. But I know that The Exorcist [1973] is one of the best and most famous of [horor movies].

The promises of higher education and previously enviable credentials have turned into the swindle of fulfillment.

It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.

I really just want to be an inspiration. I'm a regular guy, that had a dream, that came from a small town, that wanted to play guitar and just liked playing. I want to encourage people.

I realize that you have to show up for your life.

Nothing really says ... interactivity - which was so exciting and captures the real, the Web Zeitgeist of 1995 - than 'Click here for a picture of my dog.'

The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.