“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...”

“Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improv...”

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

“I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I'v...”

“We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.”

“There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”

“I have no wisdom to share on dating.”

“There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.”

“Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But...”