“Growing up, I slowly had this process of realizing that all the things around me that people had told me were just the natural way things were, the way things always would be, they werent natural a...”

“I think deeply about things and want others to do likewise. I work for ideas and learn from people. I dont like excluding people. Im a perfectionist, but I wont let that get in the way of publicati...”

“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.”

“Think deeply about things. Dont just go along because thats the way things are or thats what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.”

“Before I went to college I read two books. I read a book Moral Mazes by Robert Jackall which is a study of how corporations work, and its actually a fascinating book, this sociologist, he just pick...”

“I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any p...”

“Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make the...”

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

“A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.”