... I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.

Technology giveth and technology taketh away.

If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?

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.

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

Like all security, privacy is hard.

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.