Sunday July 17, 2011
"I want to keyword search my memory and have a list of every website that I’ve ever loved accessible via my neural network."
Tuesday April 5, 2011
"In the city, everybody is somewhat homeless and that's how it works. If you live in small-town, USA, you entertain yourself at home. You eat in the dining room, you relax in the bedroom, etc. Most of your off-work life you spend... at home.
But in the city, it's different. The city is really part of your house! You frequently eat at a restaurant, you relax to a book at the library, you read a book in the subway. Public places become part of your house, your daily life. It's typical to spend very little time "at home", even when you are being private"
Wednesday December 29, 2010
When history takes a look at the lives of Jerry Yang and David Filo, this is what it will probably say: "Two graduate students, intrigued by a growing wealth of material on the Internet, built a huge fucking lobster trap, absorbed as much of human history and creativity as they could, and destroyed all of it."
Wednesday November 3, 2010
"My ability to decide how I feel about Wikileaks' activities is totally annihilated by my ongoing realization that it cannot possibly be real. It's a plot device in a near-future thriller novel. I mean, seriously, semi-stateless man with an unusual appearance uses an army of anonymous allies to expose governments' secrets, and posts an insurance file in public with some kind of deadman switch in case he's taken out by his enemies? That shit does not happen in real life. Julian Assange is a Neal Stephenson character who's escaped in to the real world."