Somebody could send you an office document or a PDF file, and as soon as you open it, it's a booby trap and the hacker has complete control of your computer. Another major problem is password management. People use the same password on multiple sites, so when the hacker compromises one site, they have your password for everywhere else.
I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it.
Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.
If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.
The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.
I'm still a Chicagoan in the fact that I can't do Christmas with sand and palm trees. It just doesn't compute - it's not Christmas unless your face hurts when you step outside.
It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.
If you're too embarrassed and want to hide behind your computer screen, that's what this is for. It's about building confidence and that's what U by Kotex does. Girls owning their bodies and health.
I can recall photographs of Comrade Ulbricht being embraced by Comrade Brezhnev, which must have been like putting your arms around Grant's Tomb.
There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
