Anything invented before you were eighteen was there all along. Anything invented before you’re thirty is exciting and will change the world forever.… - Cory Doctorow

It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.

As someone once said, "Just because you're not interested in politics does not mean that politics won't be interested in you." And staying away from politics either because you think tech will make laws irrelevant or because there's no good way to influence laws just opens the field for people who don't cherish either of those illusions to make things very bad indeed.

I’m suspicious of any plan to fix unfairness that starts with ‘step one, dismantle the entire system and replace it with a better one,’ especially if you can’t do anything else until step one is done.