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.
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...
Work needed doing, and he could help. What more could anyone ask for?
The proprietary advantage once enjoyed by companies who assembled teams under their own roofs and used them only on their own products has been surrendered in the rush to attain some semblance of lean...
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...
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...
The Nazi cipher was called Enigma, and they used a little mechanical computer called an Enigma Machine to scramble and unscramble the messages they got.
So close the book and go. The world is full of security systems. Hack one of them.
Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.
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 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...
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.
Beneath the red crosses was another insignia: CHP. California Highway Patrol. They were State Troopers.
A number is random if the simplest way to express it is by writing it down.
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...
You want a burrito? I asked.Is that a question or a statement of the obvious?Neither. It's an order.
