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.
"We sign these treaties to protect us from ourselves, not from them."
It's not often that research results look this good ... just move everything to HotOrNot ...
One lesson of the current market chaos, then, is that it’s hard to get incentives right.
The upper line from Decisionville, the Great Celestial Route, is not without its trials, represented by such station stops as Bearingcross, Abandonment, and Long Suffering; but the final destination, The Celestial City, is clearly more desirable than its counterpart.
Ultimately, the struggle of the fundamentalists is against two enemies, secularism and modernism.
Martial Law in this country has become an antibiotic: in order to obtain the same results one has to keep doubling the doses. Pakistan is the most urbanized country in South Asia. ... spatial proximity is a necessary material condition ...
Democracy, which is simple in concept, is in practice an exceedingly complex system.
Exercising power in the name of security is not necessarily illiberal.
"All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: the United States will not ignore your oppression." ... Langley's Kafkaesque workplace culture ...
Having refused the poor what is necessary, they give the rich what is superfluous.
