After Anonymous brought in its Real Name Policy. They
[T]hat little voice shut up the instant I did something. And not just something: the exact thing I knew to be right. Because if the system was broken, if Carrie Johnstone wasn’t going to ever pay cons...
The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from b...
Businesses are great structures for managing big projects. It’s like trying to develop the ability to walk without developing a skeleton. Once in a blue moon, you get an octopus, but for the most part...
Any complex system is sport for a hacker;
When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
We’re not making a world without greed, Jacob. We’re making a world where greed is a perversion. Where grabbing everything for yourself instead of sharing is like smearing yourself with shit: gross. W...
We are all worth something,' she said. 'Zottas are not worth more than the rest of us. Self-Deception makes us into monsters. Selfishness is an excuse to busy your empathy. People are basically good....
This life is real too. We're communicating aren't we?
Sysadmins don't take holidays
No, I mean I'm sorry that you've inherited such a miserable, collapsing Old Country. A place where rich Bankers own everything, where you've got to be grateful for a part-time job with no benefits and...
Makes me want to tweak reality’s gamma slider.
You know, there comes a point where you're not giving advice anymore. There comes a point where you're just moralizing, demonstrating your hypothetical superiority when it comes to doing the right thi...
There were dumplings on the train, sold by grim men and women with deep lines cut into their faces by years and worry and hunger and misery. This was the provinces, the outer territories, the mysterio...
Utopia is impossible; everyone who isn’t a utopian is a shmuck.
The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and looking at its guts.
Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.
New media don’t succeed because they’re like the old media, only better: they succeed because they’re worse than the old media at the stuff the old media is good at, and better at the stuff the old me...
With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?
