Books Are Really, Really Hard To Write.

We Should Treat Computers As Fancy Telephones, Whose Purpose Is To Connect People.... As Long As We Remember That We Ourselves Are The Source Of Our Value, Our Creativity, Our Sense Of Reality, Then All Of Our Work With Computers Will Be Worthwhile And Beautiful.

Pop Culture Has Entered Into A Nostalgic Malaise. Online Culture Is Dominated By Trivial Mashups Of The Culture That Existed Before The Onset Of Mashups, And By Fandom Responding To The Dwindling Outposts Of Centralized Mass Media. It Is A Culture Of Reaction Without Action.

Is War An Inevitable Outcome Of Competing Interests In A Complex Society? In Other Words, Would War Be The Same Even If Human Nature Were Very Different? There Are Mathematical Models Of Large Groups Working Together That Lead To Conflict On A Reliable Basis. So There's A Whole Other View Of War That Is Not Psychological At All.

If You Love A Medium Made Of Software, There's A Danger That You Will Become Entrapped In Someone Else's Recent Careless Thoughts. Struggle Against That.

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.