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

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.

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

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.

No one knows your success or failure best than your enemy who pretends to be your greatest friend.

As an applicant, you need to show recruiters that you have the skills, experience and knowledge that they need, and provide the evidence of this in a tailored application.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips.

Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.

If we can just try every day to be the best versions of ourselves, we are offering to the world the best addition to society.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

Observing and understanding are two different things.

I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost.

All we can do, child, is follow our destiny.