Facts, even false ones, cannot be copyrighted.

I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.

The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available.

I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.

So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that's not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered. I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren't constantly berating yourself for being sad.

This is the Homosexuality Is An Abomination Club, right?

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.