Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.

Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.

Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.

The past is a kind of future that has already happened.

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.