A police state is a country run by criminals

Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

A police state is a country run by criminals

If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.

One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.