I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.
I think you have to be a mathematician to appreciate how full of shit economists are, how astrological their equations are.
I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining th...
I hate that, I said. It's like there's no human beings in the chain of responsibility, just things-that-happen. It's the ultimate cop-out. The system did it. The company did it. The government did it....
He ended up in this place because these supposed pals of his had screwed up. He knew that he was going to end up making up with them, going to end up getting deeper into this. He knew that this was ho...
Dude, estoy aqui por loco, no por pendejo, which was the punch line to the funniest Spanish joke I knew. Okay, the only one. Google it.
Botnets are supremely powerful, since they can comprise thousands, even hundreds of thousands of computers, scattered all over the Internet, connected to juicy high-speed connections and running on fa...
Bless the wooly alt. hierarchy and all those who sail in her.
Anything invented before you were eighteen was there all along. Anything invented before you’re thirty is exciting and will change the world forever. Anything invented after that is an abomination and...
A ‘job creator’ is someone who figures out how to threaten you with starvation unless you do something you don’t want to do.
You want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.
Work needed doing, and he could help. What more could anyone ask for?
The theory is that if the Internet can't be controlled, then copyright is dead. The thing is, the Internet is a machine for copying things cheaply, quickly, and with as little control as possible, whi...
People actually like supporting the artists whose work they like. It makes them feel happy. You don’t have to force them. And if you force them, they don’t feel as good.
Look, there are as many walkaway philosophies as there are walkaways, but mine is, 'the stories you tell come true.' If you believe everyone is untrustworthy, you'll build that into your systems so th...
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....
It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.
It gave you ironic distance—a very now kind of high. Conspiracy
Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s crashware turd that no one under the age of forty used voluntarily.
For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.