It’s not necessarily about what career you pick. It’s about how you do what you do.
It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.
Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.
I choose YouTube over telly.
These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.
For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it’s time for them to help us to ignore.
Any outfit that can’t figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can’t benefit from my advice.
Every time I go past a cinema and see a queue out the door, I think, look at those fools, every penny they spend is turned into profits that are used to pass laws imprisoning their own children. Can’t they see?
I think that Utopia is a theory of human action...
Technology giveth and technology taketh away.
Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction’s most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.
Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day – that way, you can write three or five words without being “creative” and before you know it, you’re writing.
The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face.
It’s hard not to like Asimov; he’s a really likable guy.
If you stare at someone long enough, they’ll eventually look back at you.
He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.
Novels for me are how I find out what’s going on in my own head. And so that’s a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.
The companies are multinational – why should labor still stick to borders?
He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.
The future’s a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids.