I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

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.

I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.