Wired people should know something about wires.

I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.

Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.

It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can openers.

Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

"The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening," Miss Pao said, "regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means of an ablative technique."

Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.