“Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, h...”

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

“Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and t...”

“Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from...”

“I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.”

“The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a des...”

“The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.”

“I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it als...”

“Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Step...”

“There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.”

“A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those...”

“Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored t...”