Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

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.

Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.

Love and care can transform the impossible to possible and ugliness into beauty.

Don't go to sleep doused in hatred.Instead go to sleep snuggled in love.

Never lose hope.Never lose faith.

It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.

People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.

I know a smart business decision when I see one - choosing open standards is | a very smart business decision indeed.

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.

It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked