Somewhere, in a distant land he barely knew the name of, people had stopped buying washing machines, and so his city had died. - Cory Doctorow

"s security expert Bruce Schneier has said, "Making bits harder to copy is like making water that's less wet.

The law didn’t care if you were actually doing anything bad; they were willing to put you under the microscope just for being statistically abnormal.

I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.