What are letters?” “Kinda like mediaglyphics except they’re all black, and they’re tiny, they don’t move, they’re old and boring and really hard to read. But you can use ’em to make short words for long words.

One of the problems, hanging out with me, is that I can turn any topic into a toxic horror story. I've lost two girlfriends and a job by reading an ingredients label out loud, with annotations, at the wrong time.

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

It is the fate of operating systems to become free.

If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?