What you’ve got to understand, son, says the doctor, is it’s all the fault of the alien space bats.
Stories become great by hacking your brain. Nothing that happens in fiction matters. The people in fiction are fictional so their triumphs and tragedies have literally no consequence. The death of the...
I felt one hundred feet tall, made of solid gold, and on fire.
Content, huh? Ha! Where's the container?
The number of games went up or down according to the brutal, elegant logic of the economics of fun:a certain amount of difficultyplusa certain amount of your friendsplusa certain amount of interesting...
Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.
Marcus is a great example of that way of thinking. He’s always looking for ways a security system fails.
I want to just DO SOMETHING instead of ask someone else to start a process to investigate the possibility of someday possibly maybe doing something.
I used to want to understand how the world worked. Little things, like heavy stuff goes at the bottom of the laundry bag, or big things, like the best way to get a boy to chase you is to ignore him, o...
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...
Making stuff: The folks at Instructables have put up some killer HOWTOs for building the technology in this book. It's easy and incredibly fun. There's nothing so rewarding in this world as making stu...
I’m not magic. You lead yourselves.
If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.
I mean, you can't be a revolutionary after the revolution, can you? Didn't we all struggle so that kids like Lil wouldn't have to?
I had spoken to the universe, and the universe hadn’t given a damn.
But beautiful was not the opposite of terrible. The two could easily coexist.
Any outfit that can’t figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can’t benefit from my advice.
Ten thousand years ago, the state-of-the-art was a goat.
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...
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...
