And don’t talk to me about having a positive attitude. The reason all those who’ve died of cancer croaked is because they had cancer, not because the… - Cory Doctorow

I think that if I’m still here in ten thousand years, I’m going to be crazy as hell. Ten thousand years, pal! Ten thousand years ago, the state-of-the-art was a goat. You really think you’re going to be anything recognizably human in a hundred centuries?

One thing I learned in all my years as a tech person: tech is more about sales than it is about code.

Gandhi admitted to beating his wife. He was a great man, but not a saint.” He swallowed. “No one mentions that Gandhi had all that violence inside him. I think it makes him better, because it means that his way wasn’t just some natural instinct he was born with. It was something he battled for, in his own mind, every day.