Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way, you can write three or five words without being “creative” and before you know it, you're writing.

Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.

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.

For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

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.