who will love you? who will fight? and who will fall far behind?

...your antagonist is a hero in their own mind... p.192

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don't know. That's part of what I suppose is part of being brave and putting creative work out there.

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.

A lot of hackers set up scam sites. They can impersonate a site like PayPal, for instance.

[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.

All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something. We make terrible assumptions.

Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.

I try to just pay attention to what I'm feeling. If something is scary to me, then that's sometimes a good sign - although, sometimes it's not.

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.