It is the right of a free individual to be unhindered in their liberty!
Especially to fail in their endeavors!
Only in this manner are they truly free.

Your weakness - the weakness of your soft American life - is you think that all people are like you, that reason can explain everything in this world. You expect two plus two to equal four. But it doesn't. It equals whatever the powerful say it does. If they say it equals a hundred and eight, the mathematicians will prove it's so. --- (Milosa Kasparov)

What is the difference between texting and newspeak?

They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, were life

The imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

It is not what a government does with data that defines it; it is what it does to human beings.