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I choose YouTube over telly.
Like all security, privacy is hard.
Write even when the world is chaotic.
The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.
Technology giveth and technology taketh away.
No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.
if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it
We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.
Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.
It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.
We have a name for things that don't copy themselves: dead.
Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.
It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.
The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.
Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks
It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.
The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face
Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.
The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.
Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream.
All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.
The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids.
It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.
Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.
The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.
For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.
Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.
The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.
What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!
Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still freeand we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?
Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.
Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.
... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.
Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.