I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.

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

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

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

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.

Humans change themselves through technology.

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

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable.

I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word "bullshit" earnings.

The use of talent is far more important than the possession of talent.

Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.

It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.

I still had an irrational desire to do an interpretive dance about rainbows, but it was a small price to pay for being healed.

You can turn just about any simple act into a practice of mindfulness, and it will nurture and nourish you; it will start your day off in a positive way.