Here’s a free tip, his father says: The feds aren’t terribly impressed by infantile egoism. In fact, if Objectivism were at the center of human philosophical discourse rather than the fringes, we woul...
Any outfit that can’t figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can’t benefit from my advice.
I’m not magic. You lead yourselves.
If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any...
If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.
But beautiful was not the opposite of terrible. The two could easily coexist.
The American worker’s enemy isn’t the Mexican worker, it’s the auto manufacturer who screws both of them.
We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.
The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids.
Sysadmins don't take holidays
Makes me want to tweak reality’s gamma slider.
In those hours where he'd planned for the [possible future] demise of his family's fortune, he'd settled quickly on the easiest job he could step into: Mechanical Turk.The Turks were an army of worker...
I had spoken to the universe, and the universe hadn’t given a damn.
I don't know anything about press conferences.Oh, just Google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean, if the President can manage it, I'm sure you can. He looks...
For hundreds of years, the human race has dreamt of a world where knowledge could be shared universally, where every human being on the planet could have access to our storehouse of knowledge. Because...
Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it’s impossible to win by doing nothing.
You want to be in charge of your machines, you have to learn to write code.
Living people can sometimes change their situations, while dead ones can’t change a fucking thing.
What they are is hopeful.
The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with...