It's Hard Not To Like Asimov; He's

I'm 17 Years Old. I'm Not A Straight-a Student Or Anything. Even So, I Figured Out How To Make An Internet That They Can't Wiretap. I Figured Out How To Jam Their Person-tracking Technology. I Can Turn Innocent People Into Suspects And Turn Guilty People Into Innocents In Their Eyes. I Could Get Metal Onto An Airplane Or Beat A No-fly List. I Figured This Stuff Out By Looking At The Web And By Thinking About It. If I Can Do It, Terrorists Can Do It. They Told Us They Took Away Our Freedom To Make Us Safe. Do You Feel Safe?

When You Teach Your Students That It's "economically Rational" To Commit Crimes Where The Fines For Misconduct Are Lower Than The Expected Return On The Crime, You Instill A Professional Ethic That Has No Room For Morals.

Every Time I Go Past A Cinema And See A Queue Out The Door, I Think, Look At Those Fools, Every Penny They Spend Is Turned Into Profits That Are Used To Pass Laws Imprisoning Their Own Children. Can't They See?

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.

It Is Not Gender, Nor Age, Nor Race, But Your Ability To Work Hard At What You Love.