Building a new nation is never a straight, steady climb upward. Today can sometimes look worse than yesterday -- or even two months ago. What matters is the overall trajectory: Where do things stand today when compared to what they were five years ago?

You know it's hard out here for a pimp. It's even harder, let me tell you, for a whore.

America looks to the day when the people of the Middle East leave the desert of despotism for the fertile gardens of liberty, and resume their rightful place in a world of peace and prosperity.

Americans love gumption. We believe that stupid ideas become brilliant ones if you just keep working on them with bullish tenacity.

This not a war against terror any more than World War II was a war against kamikazes.

I have a distinct memory of the first place and time I saw soxmas.mov.

Counterinsurgency is more like an election than a military operation.

Curiosity becomes yearning, and yearning becomes obsession.

The report of the 9/11 Commmission is now available as a comic book.

The level I work at is at the juxtaposition, say, of Prada and Santeria. But it's not about Prada or Santeria. It's not about having ideas about either. It's about seeing what happens when the two are put together.

He has built "unplayable" musical instruments -- including a 25-foot-long accordion -- and created such signature works as "Video Quartet" and "Crossfire," film clip remixes powering mind-bending interactions among images, soundscapes and music.

Indeed, only 63 words ... are needed to make up half of everything said on TV.

He was free to be less than perfect, which is more interesting than perfect.

Brian Eno once famously remarked that the problem with computers is that there isn't enough Africa in them.

Escape the rat race.

... attempting to fasten a usable structure around a continually evolving computational ecology ...

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