Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.

If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.

More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.

I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.