It's Part Of A Cycle Of Stories

The Opposite Of Esprit D'escalier Is The Way That Life's Embarrassments Come Back To Haunt Us Even After They're Long Past. I Could Remember Every Stupid Thing I'd Ever Said Or Done, Recall Them With Picture-perfect Clarity. Any Time I Was Feeling Low, I'd Naturally Start To Remember Other Times I Felt That Way, A Hit Parade Of Humiliations Coming One After Another To My Mind.

I'm Not A Lawyer I'm A Kind Of Mouthpiece/activist Type, Though Occasionally They Shave Me And Stuff Me Into My Bar Mitzvah Suit And Send Me To A Standards Body Or The Un To Stir Up Trouble. I Spend About Three Weeks A Month On The Road Doing Completely Weird Stuff Like Going To Microsoft To Talk About Drm.

It's Our Goddamed City! It's Our Goddamed Country. No Terrorist Can Take It From Us For So Long As We're Free. Once We're Not Free, The Terrorists Win! Take It Back! You're Young Enough And Stupid Enough Not To Know That You Can't Possibly Win, So You're The Only Ones Who Can Lead Us To Victory! Take It Back!

Engineers Are All Basically High-functioning Autistics Who Have No Idea How Normal People Do Stuff.

There Is No Future In Which Bits Will Be Harder To Copy Than They Are Today ... Any Business Model That Based On The Idea That Bits Will Be Harder To Copy Is Doomed.