What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.

The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from by blood. By keeping their GDP at home, the U.S. revolutionaries were able to bootstrap their nation into an industrial powerhouse. Now, it seems, their descendants are bent on ensuring that no other country can pull the same trick off.

It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.