Natasha Singer:

As universities and colleges around the country expand their online course offerings, many administrators are introducing new technologies to deter cheating. The oversight, administrators say, is crucial to demonstrating the legitimacy of an online degree to students and their prospective employers.

John Herrman:

This is the problem Amazon has with so many of its new products: They are easy to see for what they are. They often feel, first and foremost, like solutions to Amazon's problems, not yours.

Jeff Atwood:

The act of writing (or cut-and-pasting) your own code is easier than understanding and peer reviewing someone else's code. There is a fundamental, unavoidable asymmetry of work here. The amount of code being churned out today -- even if you assume only a small fraction of it is "important" enough to require serious review -- far outstrips the number of eyeballs available to look at the code.

Wes Felter:

We're getting into interest-only adjustable-rate subprime technical debt.

Barack Obama:

I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America ... hereby declare a national emergency ...

Verlyn Klinkenborg:

Someone from the future, I'm sure, will marvel at our blindness and at the hole we have driven ourselves into, for we are completely committed to an unsustainable technology.