Think of RepRap as a China on your desktop.

If [YouTube] were to switch to Theora and maintain even a semblance of the current YouTube quality it would take up most available bandwidth across the internet.

Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt.

It is easy to sympathize with the MIS staffs around the world, I mean who hasn't lost work due to Windows or a Microsoft application crashing?

God is a lot of things to a lot of people but I don't think He is a cheap party host with limited grace to give out.

The hardest choices are made not once, but every turn.

Muslims make pilgrimages to Mecca. Dylan fans make pilgrimages to Hibbing.

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.

I have long ago accepted that I am a little crazy and a little weird. It wasn't that exciting a revelation though. Turns out everyone is.

You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs.

You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea.

Well, I don't remember all the names of all the clubs we went to

Yeah, we wouldn't want to lose our little Mockingjay when she's finally begun to sing.

Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.