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

It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

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.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids.