I fireballed him as he was seeking out treasure after we wiped out a band of orcs, playing rock-paper-scissors with each orc to determine who would prevail in combat. This is a lot more exciting than it sounds. It's quite civilized, and a little weird. You go running after someone through the woods, catch up with him, bare your teeth, and sit down to play a little roshambo.

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

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

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

The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face

I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. 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.