In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All so he could possess casual style. A style that, in logistical requirements, was comparable to fielding a nineteenth-century military brigade. But he looked good. Casual.

Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza iwth roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shard an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.

I actually love technology. I worked for 18 years as systems analyst in technology.

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell.

A very small group of powerful people is deciding what's going to happen with your data, and they're using bots to help implement what they want to do. That has nothing to do with democracy. It's all about efficiency. And that's the really scary thing about it.