Raw Meat is a quoteblog by Aaron Swartz.

so brutally terse that it feels more like a weapon invented by Ian M. Banks than a network protocol

Why do I call Mr. Khan dangerous? The answer involves Eli Pariser, B. F. Skinner, and George Orwell.

Honestly, your wholehearted convictions, they don’t come into the game until you are way up there.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen him lock a door.

I used to prepare for traveling. Now, I jump on planes, trains and automobiles with no idea of where I am or where I’m going, trusting my fate to a little blue GPS dot that I assume is not trying to murder me.

What’s the difference between the old Soviet Gum stores and Walmart? The products in the first all made by Russian communists, the products in the second by Chinese communists?

Would he raise taxes on the highest earners to help reduce the deficit? “Do you know what solves this problem better than anything?” Trump says. “A good economy.” As for how he’d make that happen: “You can’t reveal your hand, like in poker. It’ll be easy, it’ll be quick. But I don’t want to go around saying how I’m going to win.

Dear Sequoia Capital,” one commenter mocked over on the bilious Tumblr watchdog blog Get Off My Internets. “Please fund me with $25 million U.S. dollars. I will stick some photos of people cats into a scrapbook, with a couple of quotes from Joan Didion and David Foster Wallace and this will have the same effect on the world as Tumblr and also same profits.

Your letter is good, I got the other NRM bosses in my office and showed it to them and I told them that it would be fun for kids to climb and ride on more trains. Every day the Explainers open cabs for visitors but I think it needs to be more. So I have told the other bosses to think about how we can let more people climb on more trains. They said they would do this for me but they told me that some of the trains are too fragile to climb on.

Google’s devotion to data isn’t always an asset (as we’ll explore momentarily), but there’s likely no other way for the company to conceive of itself because that’s how Page operates. “I was talking to Larry on Saturday,” says Nikesh Arora, Google’s chief business officer, when we sit down to talk the following Tuesday. “I told him that I’d gotten back from nine cities in 12 days — Munich, Copenhagen, Davos, Zurich, New Delhi, Bombay, London, San Francisco. There’s a silence for five seconds. And then he’s like, ‘That’s only eight.’