This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

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

We have a name for things that don't copy themselves: dead.

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

It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back!

If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.