Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing. - Cory Doctorow

Face-book has all the social graces of a nose-picking, hyperactive six-year-old, standing at the threshold of your attention and chanting, “I know something, I know something, I know something, won’t tell you what it is!

Things are true or they aren’t, no matter how old the person saying them happens to be.

Larry poured himself a coffee. "I hate when they come in here with computers. They sit forever at their tables, and they don't talk to nobody, it's like having a place full of statues or zombies."