Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face

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

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

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

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.