A brave man would see catharsis in all this misery; a wise man would not be so hasty.

"You Westerners have your watches," the leader observed. "But we Taliban have time."

For many Californians, the looming demise of the "time lady," as she's come to be known, marks the end of a more genteel era, when we all had time to share.

Now, after three billion years, the Darwinian interlude is over.

Oh! I feel it. I feel the cosmos!

The dot-com crash of the early 2000s should have been followed by decades of soul-searching; instead, even before the old bubble had fully deflated, a new mania began to take hold on the foundation of our long-standing American faith that the wide expansion of home ownership can produce social harmony and national economic well-being.

Ideas are like fish. Originality is just the ideas you caught.

A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be a utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities.

It is unclear whether many of these interlocking relationships served any economic purpose.

It was bold, it was risky, it was expensive. And it was wrong.

How did such a triumph of engineering leave so much corporate wreckage?

What actually drove the company and others like it into the ground was an epic miscalculation ...

52% of Americans think dinosaurs and humans lived together.

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