People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

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.

We are besieged by simple problems.... Checklists can provide protection

One of the worst things we could do is start to act now as though the attack of 9/11 is a thing of the past and will never be repeated. That's just not true.

You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

Next thing you know, we're like the computer people for the movie industry in the Twin Cities

The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.