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I'm an advocate of human nature.

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software...

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

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

If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be...

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

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.

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had...

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort...

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

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.

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

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