To Me, To Say That War Isn't

There Is No Difference Between Machine Autonomy And The Abdication Of Human Responsibility.

It Is Impossible To Work In Information Technology Without Also Engaging In Social Engineering.

I'm Astonished At How Readily A Great Many People I Know, Young People, Have Accepted A Reduced Economic Prospect And Limited Freedoms In Any Substantial Sense, And Basically Traded Them For Being Able To Screw Around Online.

I Think Complexity Is Mostly Sort Of Crummy Stuff That Is There Because It's Too Expensive To Change The Interface.

A Fashionable Idea In Technical Circles Is That Quantity Not Only Turns Into Quality At Some Extreme Of Scale, But Also Does So According To Principles We Already Understand. Some Of My Colleagues Think A Million, Or Perhaps A Billion, Fragmentary Insults Will Eventually Yield Wisdom That Surpasses That Of Any Well-thought-out Essay, So Long As Sophisticated Secret Statistical Algorithms Recombine The Fragments. I Disagree. A Trope From The Early Days Of Computer Science Comes To Mind: Garbage In, Garbage Out.