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...
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?
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...
Any outfit that can’t figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can’t benefit from my advice.
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.
This stuff only works in practice. In theory, it’s a mess.
The fact was, there wasn't room on earth for a couple million gold-farmers to turn into high-paid video-game executives. The fact was, if you had to slice the pie into enough pieces to give one to eve...
So far, I’ve managed to spend more time free than behind bars. Paranoia is my friend.
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...
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...
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.
This life is real too. We're communicating aren't we?
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...
The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a sub...
So close the book and go. The world is full of security systems. Hack one of them.
Of course, it couldn't last. Those whom the gods would destroy utterly, they first give a taste of heaven.