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

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!

The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.

Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.

Technology giveth and technology taketh away.

Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.