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- Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
- We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out…
- As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.
- What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them.…
- Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually…
- Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to…
- I have developed my most meaningful relationships online. None of them live within driving distance. None of them are about my own age.
- We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
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