Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist.

I'm an artist and an engineer, which is, increasingly, a more common kind of hybrid. But I still fall into this weird crack where people don't seem to understand me.

In my own case, I'm an artist, and I'm really interested in expanding the vocabulary of human action, and basically empowering people through interactivity. I want people to discover themselves as actors, as creative actors, by having interactive experiences.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

I think fiat currencies will become digital.

The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

We're learning a tremendous amount of propaganda from television and the Internet.

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.