The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

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.

The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.

in piecesyet at peacei am a building in a post war city

There is only one better thing than music - live music.

I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.

The lifting up of the woman does not require the tearing down of the man. In fact, a strong woman appreciates a strong man. Conversely, a strong man is not intimidated by a strong woman.

Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.

To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.