The popular things become more popular and the less-popular things get less popular.

If you shoot the C.E.O., they'll hire another one. The job will still get done.

It turns out that when you let people know what other people think, the popular things become more popular. But at the same time, it becomes harder to predict what will be popular.

The very best songs never do terribly but they can only do OK.

If a lot of people independently vote for a song, we are going to call that quality.

For most of my life I've liked to pretend I live in a starship. Punching in fake codes to get into doorways that obviously are not secure. I love that idea of living on a spaceship. Because essentially we are: a gigantic thing floating in some infinite darkness that's running on principles that we don't even understand.