It’s the nature of the beast to believe in bubbles and think you can just entrepreneur your way out. She
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...
I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographical novel about Jack Kerouac, a druggy, hard-drinking writer who goes hitchhiking around America, wo...
I know we don’t need everyone in the world to agree for this to work, but there’s got to be a critical mass of covered-dish people or we’ll never win. Okay. Gretyl broke her silence—she’d been proddin...
Giant letters march across the dome of the sky: HOME NOT FOUND. Huw, who knows Comic Sans when she sees it, winces in mild disgust.
Gandhi admitted to beating his wife. He was a great man, but not a saint. He swallowed. No one mentions that Gandhi had all that violence inside him. I think it makes him better, because it means that...
Everything good in the world comes from the efforts of people who came before us.
Everyone failed to live up to their own ideals. She wanted to fall short of the best ideals.
End of the day, anything that made you discount objective reality and assign a premium to some kind of internal mental state was going to be both pro-survival and pro–status-quo.
Anytime someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you and doesn’t give you a key, that lock is not there for your benefit.
A number is random if the simplest way to express it is by writing it down.
The momentous arises only from the trivial.
S security expert Bruce Schneier has said, Making bits harder to copy is like making water that's less wet.
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...
What I’ve got here are my own constraints. I’m challenging myself, using found objects and making stuff that throws all this computational capacity at, you know, these trivial problems, like car-drivi...
We were dancing, lost in the godbeat and the thrash and the screaming--TAKE IT BACK! TAKE IT BACK!
We left default because I wanted to be part of something where I was more than an inconvenient surplus labor unit. I know I can work here and there’s plenty to do, but it feels contrived. The other da...
Utopia is impossible; everyone who isn’t a utopian is a shmuck.
They’d only been here for a couple of years, only employed twenty people all told, their two-year tax holiday was ending. Place
These guys are the world’s biggest welfare queens, after all—suck up government money in military contracts, use it to issue bonds, get the government to pass laws that make your bonds into safer bets...