She's not afraid. She's wearing a dentata.

Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor.

The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring binder ― its DNA ― Xerox it, and embed it in the fertile line of a well-traveled highway, preferably one with a left turn lane. Then the growth will expand until it runs up against its property lines.

It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.

I actually don't think that there is a connection between the survival instinct and a hunger for immortality.

Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.