Making other people feel like assholes was a terrible way to get them to stop acting like assholes.
Makes me want to tweak reality’s gamma slider.
I’m not magic. You lead yourselves.
It’s the nature of the beast to believe in bubbles and think you can just entrepreneur your way out.
It's good versus evil, Dan. You don't want to be a post-person. You want to stay human. The rides are human. We each mediate them through our own experience. We're physically inside of them, and they...
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 love freedom, if you think the human condition is dignified by privacy, by the right to be left alone, by the right to explore your weird ideas provided you don’t hurt others, then you have com...
I felt one hundred feet tall, made of solid gold, and on fire.
He’s a sucking chest wound of a human being. But if you’re going to have a jailer, better a clueless one than one who’s really on the ball.
You're awfully sure of yourself, aren't you? But ask yourself this: How can you know that you didn't spring up fully formed, all of these little convictions stamped upon you? Or, even if your little o...
We were dancing, lost in the godbeat and the thrash and the screaming--TAKE IT BACK! TAKE IT BACK!
There’s something else, he said. What? I wasn’t going to mention it, but I want you to understand why I have to do this. Jesus, Jolu, what? I hate to say it, but you’re white. I’m not. White people ge...
The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
The best way to be superhuman is to do things that you love with other people who love them, too. The only way to do that is to admit you’re doing it because you love it and if you do more than everyo...
That’s why you never hear politicians talking about ‘citizens,’ it’s all ‘taxpayers,’ as though the salient fact of your relationship to the state is how much you pay. Like the state was a business an...
That’s what made the panics about huge zero-day security ruptures such a fright: the sudden knowledge that everything might have been auto-pwned by a random crim or asshole who used a skin-detection a...
Ten thousand years ago, the state-of-the-art was a goat.
Sysadmins don't take holidays
Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.
Otto von Bismarck quipped, Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.