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Technology Today Is The Campfire Around Which We Tell Our Stories. There's This Attraction To Light And To This Kind Of Power, Which Is Both Warm And Destructive. We're Especially Drawn To The Power. Many Of The Images Of Technology Are About Making Us More Powerful, Extending What We Can Do. Unfortunately, 95 Percent Of This Is Hype, Because I Think We're Powerful Without It.

I Genuinely Have Never Been In An Audience Where Most People Want That Person To Fail. I've Never Been In An Audience Like That, And I've Never Seen It As A Performer. Only In My Dreams, In Which Case They Are Always Throwing Tomatoes And Going, "this Is The Most Boring Thing I've Ever Seen."

People Only Stutter At The Beginning Of The Word. They're Not Afraid When They Get To The End Of The Word. There's Just Regret.

I Think Women Are Excellent Social Critics.

The Audience Creates Its Own Personality, I've Noticed, In The First Five Minutes. They Will Either Be Generous, Funny, Silly, Withholding, Academic, Analytical, Grudging. And I'm Fascinated With How That Gets Constructed, Because It Happens Right Away.