The second was that Maurice had ordered an expensive taxi for one of the Christian Brothers on a school telephone, using the teacher's name, and the driver had waited outside the school for a long period, and subsequently charged a large fee for the service.

The first was that he'd apparently objected to one of the Christian Brothers, or at least found reasons to lock this teacher in a closet, so as to be able to wag school.

Marc Andreessen, briefly:

I love the nine tenths of the law that defends my property rights without regard for injustice, but I really hate that other tenth.

I realised in my early forties that I'd sort of slipped over and achieved many of the modest dreams of my thirties as if by accident (running my own business, not absolutely sucking at everything, knowing about fancy things)

Welcome to the tyranny of cone-headed tech investors whose last skerrick of neuroplasticity was used up decoding Neal Stephenson novels

"we are literally making sand think"

Okay, this thing is absolutely moronic. Not even worth quote-by-quoting it really ... "an incremental lifting of the repressive boot off the throat of the people"

"descendents"—let's introduce the Techno-Optimists to the spell-checking tools of the 1980s, shall we? 📈

I can hardly imagine a type of animal less interested in "technology" than the humble shark 🦈

What is everyone's favourite style guide for writing?

"[I can't believe] you give [those] people your time", it sounds like. Or perhaps it really is a compliment as … entropic … as "your thermal mass really moderates changes of temperature in the room"