Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf know, instinctively, that property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence. (This makes them smarter than a good many human political theorists.)

That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

Free markets select for winning solutions.

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.