On the one hand, information wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because...
Leon's life was all about discipline. He'd heard a weight-loss guru once explain that the key to maintaining a slim figure was to really listen to your body and only eat until it signaled that it was...
I’ve always loved just learning stuff for its own sake. Just to be smarter about the world around me.
If you wanted your bug fixed, you should really check it in depth.
If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.
I waited outside her door while she went into her room and moved around. She opened her door, holding her laptop in one hand and its battery in the other.
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 had spoken to the universe, and the universe hadn’t given a damn.
I fireballed him as he was seeking out treasure after we wiped out a band of orcs, playing rock-paper-scissors with each orc to determine who would prevail in combat. This is a lot more exciting than...
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...
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.
Content, huh? Ha! Where's the container?
We’re problems to be solved, not citizens. 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 muc...
The most expensive champagne in the world is cheap when compared with inkjet ink, which costs all of a penny a gallon to make wholesale.
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.
After Anonymous brought in its Real Name Policy. They
Your problem is, you're trying to understand it. You need to just do it.
You want a burrito? I asked.Is that a question or a statement of the obvious?Neither. It's an order.