Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream.

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?

If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch someone else fail as fast as possible. Watching someone else screw up is a kind of rehearsal for your own eventual downfall. A close observation of someone else's attempt to resolve a difficulty is a great way to acquire real-world insight into whether and when to deploy their method in your own times of trouble.

Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about *everything* online. What's more, they've done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever.

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.