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 think you have to be a mathematician to appreciate how full of shit economists are, how astrological their equations are.
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...
I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
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...
Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird an...
But if you're not prepared to learn from the teachers that life gives you, you'll always be ignorant.
Any time you had a cipher, you were vulnerable to someone smarter than you coming up with a way of breaking it.
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.
You’re taking the bus around Burbank? Lester said. Christ, Perry, this is Los Angeles. Even homeless people drive cars.
Your problem is, you're trying to understand it. You need to just do it.
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 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...
Uništio sam mu to uvjerenje. Bilo je lažno, naravno, ali održavalo ga je na životu. Vidjevši ga onako jadnog i slomljenog, zapitao sam se je li bolje biti svjestan i očajan ili živjeti u raju za budal...
This sounds like you’re saying that national security is more important than the Constitution.
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...
There's something really liberating about having some corner of your life that's yours, that no one gets to see except you. It's a little like nudity or taking a dump. Everyone gets naked every once i...
There was a whole subculture of mentalists who spent their nights breaking into boarded-up tube stations, forgotten sewers, abandoned buildings, and other places you just aren’t meant to be.
There are lots of ways to be superhuman. You can trick others into thinking that unless they do what you tell them, they won’t eat. You can cajole people into doing what you want by making them fear g...
The merc was more than a person: like a spaceship launch, her existence implied thousands of skilled people, generations of experts, wars, treaties, scholarship, and supply-chain management. Every one...
