Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
Skipping school isn’t a crime. It’s an infraction. They’re totally different.
Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn’t give you the key, they’re not doing it for your benefit.
It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.
If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn’t educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more – and giving them extra credit besides.
Like all security, privacy is hard.
Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
It’s the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.
Take it from someone who’s read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.
All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That’s in the nature of secrets.
We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.
Write even when the world is chaotic.
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.
The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
The other one I did was ‘I, Robot.’ I take apart Isaac Asimov’s Robots world.
The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There’s lots of good stuff on the ballot.
It’s part of a cycle of stories I’m writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
We have a name for things that don’t copy themselves: dead.