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"I've stopped worrying so much about my son Dylan. He's a healthy, normal kid, who just happens to be an obsessive information sponge. And there's nothing wrong with that. After all, we're currently living in a Bizarro society where teenagers are technology-obsessed, where the biggest sellers in every bookstore are fantasy novels about a boy wizard, and the blockbuster hit movies are all full of hobbits and elves or 1960's spandex superheroes. You don't have to go to a Star Trek convention to find geeks anymore. Today, almost everyone is an obsessive, well-informed afficianado of something.

Brainiac! by Ken Jennings

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These days I look in the mirror and I gotta admit: I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be

2013

Science Fiction used to be a dangerous literature. Now, it is a very commercial genre, and whatever dangers might still lurk within seem to have been safely sanitized for the marketplace. The real crime is that the lobotomy has been self-performed.

An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.

Writing is just sign language for the uncoordinated.

It may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please[...] The constitution and the laws of their predecessors extinguished [...] in their natural course, with those whose will gave them being. [...] Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19. years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force and not of right.

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=2220

Two psychics were walking down a street. As they passed, one of them looked at the other one and said "You're doing good. How am I?"

Boy, if I had a nickle for every time I've been doomed by a puppet...then I'd have two nickles. Which isn't a lot, it's still weird that it happened twice.

We see things not as they are, but as we are

Those who claim that Ender's Game truly captures their own childhood feelings are revealing a bit too much

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