Abnormal Is So Common, It's Practically Normal.

The United States Of America Was A Pirate Nation For The First One Hundred Years Of Its Existence, Ripping Off The Patents And Trademarks Of The Imperial European Powers It Had Liberated Itself From By Blood. By Keeping Their Gdp At Home, The U.s. Revolutionaries Were Able To Bootstrap Their Nation Into An Industrial Powerhouse. Now, It Seems, Their Descendants Are Bent On Ensuring That No Other Country Can Pull The Same Trick Off.

If You've Never Programmed A Computer, You Should. There's Nothing Like It In The Whole World. When You Program A Computer, It Does Exactly What You Tell It To Do. It's Like Designing A Machine — Any Machine, Like A Car, Like A Faucet, Like A Gas-hinge For A Door — Using Math And Instructions. It's Awesome In The Truest Sense: It Can Fill You With Awe.

I Can't Go Underground For A Year, Ten Years, My Whole Life, Waiting For Freedom To Be Handed To Me. Freedom Is Something You Have To Take For Yourself.

The Other One I Did Was "i, Robot." I Take Apart Isaac Asimov's Robots World.

If It's Not In My Email Archive, I Don't Know It