They think they win if our government -- and the country -- fails.

C.S. Lewis, in the conclusion of The Last Battle, lets a thoroughly perplexed soldier of Tash into his heavenly stable. I’m not going to insist that he has missed the central truth at the heart of Christianity.

Mark Zuckerberg launched a website that created 700 jobs. 37signals wrote a manifesto that created 15. That’s got to count for something.

There is no point in moving to digital readers if we're just going to do what we did on paper. That's why Kindle is such a piece of shit.

We did not win it because destiny created us better than all other peoples. I hope that in victory we are more grateful than we are proud.

We have one party that is severely compromised by its ties to big money, and another party that is just plain nuts.

the country I love is tearing itself apart and the people shouting the hardest that they care about the place are also the ones working hardest to destroy it.

Some critics attack single-payer, arguing that under such a program, government bureaucrats will be between the patient and the physician. In the 40 years I have been practicing under Medicare, I have never encountered an instance where Medicare has prevented proper medical care. On the other hand, insurance companies frequently interfere and block appropriate care.

Nothing appeals to everyone. Even if you try to make something that appeals to everyone by adding every single clamored-for feature, you wind up with something like Windows that does not appeal to people with a taste for the elegant and refined.

Nokia, Sony/Ericsson, Microsoft, RIM -- these guys clearly had no idea what they were in for when Apple set their sights on the cell phone market -- a market that is a nearly perfect match to Apple's strengths.