Any complex system is sport for a hacker;
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.
All this important stuff has *no one in charge of it.* Some people claim to be, but they're in charge of one tiny piece of it, and maybe they think *their* piece is a brake or a steering wheel, but th...
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.
With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
When in problem, or in doubt, run in cirles, scream and shout
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.
This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin’ it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t g...
The worst part was that the Brit’s reportage was just spleen-filled editorializing on the lack of ethics in the valley’s board-rooms (a favorite subject of hers, which no doubt accounted for his fello...
The Bill of Rights was written before data-mining, he said. He was awesomely serene, convinced of his rightness. The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to m...
She had been beaten down by too many boys and men, too much hurt and poverty and fear. This was what Mala was destined to become, someone who ran from her attackers because she couldn’t afford to ange...
Seth was a portable, external id. Not always comfortable or appropriate, but handy nevertheless.
My nose itched. I tried to ignore it, but it got worse and worse, until it was all I could think of, the flaming lance of itch that strobed at the tip of my nostril. Furiously, I wrinkled my face, rat...
It’s our version of Christian guilt—it’s impious to feel good about your piety. You have to want to be good, but not feel good about how good you are. The
In theory, we’re selfish assholes who want more than our neighbors, can’t be happy with a lot if someone else has a lot more.
If a paycheck could change your life, do you think they’d let you have one?
I'd rather be a criminal underground than a secret police.