Science doesn't pave the way for engineering, it's the other way around.

The choice of architecture matters.

Where in the free world can one see 10,000 children dancing in synchronisation, dressed as eggs?

"Time forks perpetually towards innumerable futures."

The process of tying two items together is the important thing.

What was once the mark of utter uncoolness, a veritable byword of selling out, has become the norm.

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes.

Steerage is steerage. ... the nominee is steering clear of a potential legal quagmire ... There is little romance left in long car rides.

Social networks conceal a trivialization of interaction.

I’m hearing from a lot of people that late 2007 is much like late 1997.

Ideas don't explode; they subvert. The truly subversive thing is to bombard those in power with strategically well-selected, precise, finite demands.

... some ideas burst upon us naked without the slightest evidence they could be true but with all the conviction they are.

... the burden falls upon you to spread your idea.

"Think of the kids you don’t have. Think of your unborn grandkids."

From curious children, hackers were born.

A hugely entertaining slice of sunbaked Gothic.

The Byzantine system of power has triumphed.

"It depends on how it’s done. It depends on the circumstances. It depends on who does it."

... the magic of the information age is that it allows us to know less.

It's like precrime in reverse.

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